Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil.

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle, who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge, and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities.

Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.

Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.