Pleasures take to themselves wings and fly away; true knowledge remains forever.

I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.

I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign clime. Hearts met hearts, minds joined with minds; and what were the secondary trials of pain to the enfeebled, suffering body when daily was administered the soul's medicine and food!

The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.

Men need knowledge in order to overpower their passions and master their prejudices.

I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.

Society during the last hundred years has been alternately perplexed and encouraged respecting the two great questions: how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?