I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

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

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Most of our fellow-subjects are guided either by the prejudice of education or by a deference to the judgment of those who perhaps in their own hearts disapprove the opinions which they industriously spread among the multitude.