Two purposes in human nature rule. Self- love to urge, and reason to restrain.

He who serves his brother best gets nearer God than all the rest.

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence.

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

The greatest advantage I know of being thought a wit by the world is, that it gives one the greater freedom of playing the fool.