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

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.

The time never lies heavy upon him; it is impossible for him to be alone.

Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.

Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature.