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.

I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand.

Adrian, the Emperor, exclaimed incessantly, when dying, "That the crowd of physicians had killed him."

True it is that she who escapeth safe and unpolluted from out the school of freedom, giveth more confidence of herself than she who comet sound out of the school of severity and restraint.

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.