Good men must be affectionate men.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

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.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

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

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!