Waning moons their settled periods keep, to swell the billows and ferment the deep.

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

True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

There are no more useful members in a commonwealth than merchants. They knit mankind together in a mutual intercourse of good offices, distribute the gifts of Nature, find work for the poor, and wealth to the rich, and magnificence to the great.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Nothing makes men sharper than want.