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

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Such is the uncertainty of human affairs, that security and despair are equal follies; and as it is presumption and arrogance to anticipate triumphs, it is weakness and cowardice to prog-nosticate miscarriages.

Moral sentences appear ostentatious and tumid, when they have no greater occasions than the journey of a wit to his home town: yet such pleasures and such pains make up the general mass of life; and as nothing is little to him that feels it with gre

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.

Friends are often chosen for similitude of manners, and therefore each palliates the other's failings because they are his own.