What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.

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.