To please people is a great step towards persuading them.

It seems to me that physical sickness softens, just as moral sickness hardens, the heart.

Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in an advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.

I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.