If you wish success in life, make perseverance you bosom friend, experience your wise councellor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian … - Joseph Addison

We are growing serious, and, Let me tell you, that's the very next step to being dull.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Though there is a benevolence due to all mankind, none can question but a superior degree of it is to be paid to a father, a wife, or a child. In the same manner, though our love should reach to the whole species, a greater proportion of it should exert itself towards that community in which Providence has placed us. This is our proper sphere of action, the province allotted us for the exercise of our civil virtues, and in which alone we have opportunities of expressing our good-will to mankind.