Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Habits are the daughters of action, but then they nurse their mother, and produce daughters after her image, but far more beautiful and prosperous.

No man can tell but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those dear pledges; their childishness, their stammering, their little angers, their innocence, their imperfections, their necessities, are so many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that delights in their persons and society.

All dreams reflect inborn creativity and ability to face and solve life's problems.

Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.