What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?
There is not on earth a spectacle more worthy the regard of a Creator intent on his works, than a brave man superior to his sufferings.
The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.
The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.