The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out.