When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

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

Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.

A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.

Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.