Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place.

If we require more perfection from women than from ourselves, it is doing them honor.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

The faults of a writer of acknowledged excellence are more dangerous, because the influence of his example is more extensive; and the interest of learning requires that they should be discovered and stigmatized, before they have the sanction of antiquity conferred upon them, and become precedents of indisputable authority.

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity.

This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed.

When any calamity is suffered, the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.