The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.

As few subjects are more interesting to society, so few have been more frequently written upon than the education of youth.

Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock, but make us economists of what we are possessed of. Happy were we all born philosophers; all born with a talent of thus dissipating our own cares by spreading them upon all mankind.