Joseph Addison

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in proper figures.

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.

Nothing that is not a real crime makes a man appear so contemptible and little in the eyes of the world as inconsistency.

I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.