Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

Every duty we omit obscures some truth we should have known.

God never imposes a duty without giving time to do it.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull.