Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

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.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Nature seems to have taken a particular care to disseminate her blessings among the different regions of the world, with an eye to their mutual intercourse and traffic among mankind, that the nations of the several parts of the globe might have a kind of dependence upon one another and be united together by their common interest.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.