Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.

I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain.

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.

Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by experience of its contrary.

To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison; but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.

I do not much wish well to discoveries, for I am always afraid they will end in conquest and robbery.