Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

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.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Good and bad men are each less so than they seem.

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.