Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.

The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.

The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

Intellect really exists in its products; its kingdom is here.

We have to administer the law whether we like it or no.

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.