"Do you know the meaning of the word Goodness? I see you are unwilling to answer. I will tell you. It is, first, to av…"

"It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the who…"

"Good habits, imperceptibly fixed, are far preferable to the precepts of reason; but, as this task requires more judgm…"

"You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track — the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on."

"It may be confidently asserted that no man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the go…"

"Virtue can only flourish amongst equals."

"Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world; and this is no…"

"I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence.…"

"About nine o'clock this morning the King passed by my window, moving silently along excepting now and then a few stro…"

"We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel."