Invention is nothing more than a fine deviation from, or enlargement on a fine model . . .

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

No reproach is like that we clothe in a smile, and present with a bow.

More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Remedy your deficiencies,and your merits will take care of themselves.

In families well ordered, there is always one firm, sweet temper, which controls without seeming to dictate. The Greeks represented Persuasion as crowned.