Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.

Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.

The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

Solitude is the surest nurse of all prurient passions, and a girl in the hurry of preparation, or tumult of gaiety, has neither inclination nor leisure to let tender expressions soften or sink into her heart. The ball, the show, are not the dangerous places: no, 'tis the private friend, the kind consoler, the companion of the easy vacant hour, whose compliance with her opinions can flatter her vanity, and whose conversation can sooth, without ever stretching her mind, that is the lover to be feared: he who buzzes in her ear at court, or at the opera, must be contented to buzz in vain.