Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.
Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.
The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.
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.