Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.

Indolence is the devil's cushion.

A contempt of the monuments and the wisdom of the past, may be justly reckoned one of the reigning follies of these days, to which pride and idleness have equally contributed.

Such seems to be the disposition of man, that whatever makes a distinction produces rivalry.

Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

Reason elevates our thoughts as high as the stars, and leads us through the vast space of this mighty fabric; yet it comes far short of the real extent of our corporeal being.