In general those parents have the most reverence who most deserve it; for he that lives well cannot be despised.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

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

Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when comparing a worse present state with a better which is past, you cannot but feel sorrow. It is not cured by reason, but by the incursion of present objects, which bear out the past.

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

To buried merit rise the tardy bust.

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.