See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust.

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what the society holds to be true.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens... The phantoms which haunt a desert are want, and misery, and danger; the evils of dereliction rush upon the thoughts; man is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness, and meditation shows him only how little he can sustain, and how little he can perform.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.