But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith..

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform..

You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be w….

There is a land, where the roses are without thorns, where the flowers are not mixed with brambles. In that land, there is eternal spring, and light ….

The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy con….

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct..

The well taught philosophic mind To all compassion gives; Casts round the world an equal eye, And feels for all that lives..

Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; Tis hard to part when friends are dear,- Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a….

many things I knew, I have forgotten; many things I thought I knew, I find I know nothing about; some things I know, I have found not worth knowing; ….

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse..

it is, in truth, the most absurd of all suppositions, that a human being can be educated, or even nourished and brought up, without imbibing numberle….

The world has little to bestow Where two fond hearts in equal love are joined..

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love..

You speak of beginning the education of your son. The moment he was able to form an idea his education was already begun. . . ..

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought..

Nobody ought to be too old to improve: I should be sorry if I was; and I flatter myself I have already improved considerably by my travels. First, I ….

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?.

Let us confess a truth, humiliating to human pride; - a very small part only of the opinions of the coolest philosopher are the result of fair reason….

Man is the nobler growth our realms supply, And souls are ripened in our northern sky..

Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks..

Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, shoul….