A brother's sufferings claim a brother's pity.

To look upon the soul as going on from strength to strength, to consider that she is to shine forever with new accessions of glory, and brighten to all eternity; that she will be still adding virtue to virtue, and knowledge to knowledge,--carries in it something wonderfully agreeable to that ambition which is natural to the mind of man.

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.