A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.
There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.
See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven.
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.
I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, vainly and convulsively gasping for breath.