The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind.

The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.