The unhappy never want enemies.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.