Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

It happened very providentially, to the honor of the Christian religion, that it did not take its rise in the dark illiterate ages of the world, but at a time when arts and sciences were at their height.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.