A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

Distance of Time and Place do really cure what they seem to aggravate; and taking Leave of our Friends resembles taking Leave of the World, concerning which it hath been often said, that it is not Death but Dying which is terrible.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Good-breeding is not confined to externals, much less to any particular dress or attitude of the body; it is the art of pleasing, or contributing as much as possible to the ease and happiness of those with whom you converse.