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.

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be met with in such an indolent happiness, such an indifference to mankind, as that in which the stoics placed their wisdom. As love is the most delightful passion, pity is nothing else but love softened by a degree of sorrow: In short, it is a kind of pleasing anguish, anguish as well as generous sympathy, that knits mankind together, and blends them in the same common lot.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

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