Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Domestic discord is not inevitably and fatally necessary; but yet it is not easy to avoid.

No mind is much employed upon the present; recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

Slavery is now nowhere more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty.

The faults of a man loved or honoured sometimes steal secretly and imperceptibly upon the wise and virtuous, but by injudicious fondness or thoughtless vanity are adopted with design.

The most useful truths are always universal, and unconnected with accidents and customs.

The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply.