Politeness of the mind is to have delicate thoughts

What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

Esteem never makes ingrates.

High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.

Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.

Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.