I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

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

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.

The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.

The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.