Why is it that water, so monotonous in its characteristics, should nevertheless possess a charm for every mind? I believe it is chiefly because it bears the impress of the Creator, which we feel neither the power of time or of man can efface or alter.

There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.

Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

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

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.