The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption, also.

Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing.

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

But for that blindness which is inseparable from malice, what terrible powers of evil would it possess! Fortunately for the world, its venom, like that of the rattlesnake, when most poisonous, clouds the eye of the reptile, and defeats its aim.

The only true source of politeness is consideration,--that vigilant moral sense which never loses sight of the rights, the claims, and the sensibilities of others. This is the one quality, over all others, necessary to make a gentleman.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.