feelings of man are always pure and the brightest to the meeting time and Farewell.
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.
It is easy to flatter; it is harder to praise.
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.
Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.