More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.

The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes.

The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover; and to promulgate the determinations of truth, whatever she shall dictate

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend.

An infallible characteristic of meanness is cruelty.