A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

The only things of certainty are Death and Taxes.

Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs.

Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.

The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country.

Bad gains are true losses.

A good example is the best sermon.