It would not be correct to say that every moral obligation involves a legal duty; but every legal duty is founded on a moral obligation.

O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.

Everyone should have two or three hives of bees. Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.