There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.

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

He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

In cases where every thing is understood, and measured, and reduced to rule, love is out of the question.

Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

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.

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.