The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment encourages, not prevents, universal benevolence.

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.