So upright Quakers please both man and God.

So perish all who do the like again.

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.

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.