We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection.

We all owe each other concessions of taste and opinion for the sake of family peace and affection.

in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

Oh! if people were but acquainted with piety, they would not fear it so much, or give it so unattractive a character; 'tis the balm of life, and perhaps in the world it is believed to consist of bitterness, harshness, uncouthness; but, take my word for it, nothing is more gentle, more yielding, more loving than a pious soul.

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.