As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

Love is not a volunteer thing.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.