Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.

Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit.

The constant desire of pleasing which is the peculiar quality of some, may be called the happiest of all desires in this that it rarely fails of attaining its end when not disgraced by affectation.

He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.

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.

When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough.

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others.