Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

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

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

A fine coat is but a livery when the person who wears it discovers no higher sense than that of a footman.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.