What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

He only who gave life has a power over it.

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.