Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness as well as virtue consists in mediocrity.

Resentment is a union of sorrow with malignity; a combination of a passion which all endeavor to avoid with a passion which all concur to detest.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.