It Is Hard To Tell Which Is

The Systematic Abuse With Which The Newspapers Of One Side Assail Every Candidate Coming Forward On The Other, Is The Cause Of Many Honorable Men, Who Have A Regard To Their Reputation, Being Deterred From Entering Public Life; And Of The People Being Thus Deprived Of Some Better Servants Than Any They Have.

School Is No Place Of Education For Any Children Whatever Till Their Minds Are Well Put In Action. This Is The Work Which Has To Be Done At Home, And Which May Be Done In All Homes Where The Mother Is A Sensible Woman.

A Queen, Or A Prime Minister's Secretary May Be Shot At In London, As We Know; And Probably There Is No Person Eminent In Literature Or Otherwise Who Has Not Been The Object Of Some Infirm Brain Or Another. But In America The Evil Is Sadly Common.

[i] Wish That The Land-tax Went A Little More According To Situation Than It Does. 'tis Really Ridiculous, How One Has To Pay Five Times As Much As Another, Without Any Reason That Ever I Heard Tell.

[on Being Deaf:] We Can Never Get Beyond The Necessity Of Keeping In Full View The Worst And The Best That Can Be Made Of Our Lot. The Worst Is, Either To Sink Under The Trial, Or To Be Made Callous By It. The Best Is, To Be As Wise As Is Possible Under A Great Disability, And As Happy As Is Possible Under A Great Privation.