Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

Sickness is a sort of early old age; it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state.

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.

Some people are commended for a giddy kind of good-humor, which is as much a virtue as drunkenness.

No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.