Tears are often to be found where there is little sorrow, and the deepest sorrow without any tears.

There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.

None are happy but by anticipation of change.

Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.

No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.