Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

My voice is still for war.

Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.

Should the whole frame of nature round him break, In ruin and confusion hurled, He, unconcerned, would hear the mighty crack, And stand secure amidst a falling world.

It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.