Literature, taken in all its bearings, forms the grand line of demarcation between the human and the animal kingdoms.

One of the prerogatives by which man is eminently distinguished from all other living beings inhabiting this globe of earth, consists in the gift of reason.

We cannot perform our tasks to the best of our power, unless we think well of our own capacity.

The great model of the affection of love in human beings is the sentiment which subsists between parents and children.

My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train.

The proper method for hastening the decay of error, is not, by brute force, or by regulation which is one of the classes of force, to endeavour to reduce men to intellectual uniformity; but on the contrary by teaching every man to think for himself.

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference.