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

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

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

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.