Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

Success to the strongest, who are always, at last, the wisest and best.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions.

There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.

There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.

An eminent teacher of girls said, "the idea of a girl's education, is, whatever qualifies them for going to Europe.