A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.

Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.

Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.

Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses, and their capacities enlarged not only above other men, but above human comprehension itself.