Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express."

"To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude."

"Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity."

"Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them."

"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of ;antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."