The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity.
For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.
While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.
For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
Lately we have had many losses.