A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

Look what a little vain dust we are!

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.

T is the Divinity that stirs within us.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

We see no where the pernicious effects of luxury on a republic more than in that of the ancient Romans, who immediately found itself poor as soon as this vice got footing among them, though they were possessed of all the riches in the world.

In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.