Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.

We judge others by their actions but we judge ourselves by our intensions.

I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it vaults overthe moon. I wish it to be a little of a citizen, before it is quite a cherub.

A woman's strength is the unresistible might of weakness.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.