Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.

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

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit.

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.

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.