Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are seldom upon good Terms.

The Triumph of Wit is to make your good Nature subdue your Censure; to be quick in seeing Faults, and slow in exposing them. You are to consider, that the invisible thing called a Good Name, is made up of the Breath of Numbers that speak well of you; so that if by a disobliging Word you silence the meanest, the Gale will be less strong which is to bear up your Esteem.

If none were to have Liberty but those who understand what it is, there would not be many freed Men in the world.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and divines.