A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children's affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things.

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

I cruelly hate cruelty, both by nature and reason, as the worst of all the vices. But then I am so soft in this that I cannot seea chicken's neck wrung without distress, and cannot bear to hear the squealing of a hare between the teeth of my hounds.

Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?

In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.

The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of it.