Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

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

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

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.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.