Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.

Nature performs the cure, the physician takes the fee.

What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot Sunny Climate or Season, as white ones; because in such Cloaths the Body is more heated by the Sun when we walk abroad, and are at the same time heated by the Exercise, which double Heat is apt to bring on putrid dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers and Seamen, who must march and labour in the Sun, should in the East or West Indies have an Uniform of white?

What you would seem to be, be really.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.