A ship is worse than a gaol. There is, in a gaol, better air, better company, better conveniency of every kind; and a ship has the additional disadvantage of of being in danger.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.

Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.

Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye.

About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right.