You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty. Men who have practiced tortures on animals without pity, relating them without shame, how can they still hold their heads among human beings?

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.