... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.

self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.