I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows and glories in: and that at an age, when almost all the heros and great men thought that to make their children and family a secondary concern, was the first proof of their superiority and greatness of soul.

falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.

But how cool, how quiet is true courage!

The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit.

I am tired to death! tired of every thing! I would give the universe for a disposition less difficult to please. Yet, after all, what is there to give pleasure? When one has seen one thing, one has seen every thing.