Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire.

It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn.

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.

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.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.

Whenever truth stands in the mind unaccompanied by the evidence upon which it depends, it cannot properly be said to be apprehended at all.

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.