From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend,- Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness.

An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.

If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in the pursuit of truth; if he writes not to make others learned, but to boast the learning which he possesses himself, and wishes to be admired rather than understood, he counteracts the first end of writing, and justly suffers the utmost severity of censure, or the more afflicting severity of neglect.

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry whether it is right. It is sufficient that another is growing great in his own eyes at our expense, and assumes authority over us without our permission; for many would contentedly suffer the consequences of their own mistakes, rather than the insolence of him who triumphs as their deliverer.