Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

Men are less forgiving than women.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

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

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.