Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

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