A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.

He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.

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.

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.