To see helpless infancy stretching out her hands, and pouring out her cries in testimony of dependence, without any powers to alarm jealousy, or any guilt to alienate affection, must surely awaken tenderness in every human mind; and tenderness once excited will be hourly increased by the natural contagion of felicity, by the repercussion of communicated pleasure, by the consciousness of dignity of benefaction.

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.

...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his profession, versed in the sciences, acquainted with ancient literature, and able to animate his mass of knowledge by a bright and active imagination; a scholar with great brilliance of wit; a wit who, in the crowd of life, retained and discovered a noble ardour of religious zeal.

We have less reason to be surprised or offended when we find others differ from us in opinion, because we very often differ from ourselves.

What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

Few things are so liberally bestowed, or squandered with so little effect, as good advice.

Labor's face is wrinkled with the wind, and swarthy with the sun.