Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

The business of life summons us away from useless grief, and calls us to the exercise of those virtues of which we are lamenting our deprivation.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Exercise cannot secure us from that dissolution to which we are decreed; but while the soul and body continue united, it can make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disciplined by an easy separation...to die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.