We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience.

To err is natural; to rectify error is glory.

We ought to be persuaded that the propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which heav…

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequence…

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more then his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other…

When I left him, I reasoned thus with myself: I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows some…

Reader, - This Enchiridion, I present thee with, is the Fruit of Solitude: A School few care to learn in, tho' None Instructs us better. Some Parts of it are t…