The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

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