All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold, and knowledge is inert; that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates.

To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

The eye of the mind, like that of the body, can only extend its view to new objects, by losing sight of those which are now before it.