A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.

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

Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation.

It is not enough that your designs, nay that your actions, are intrinsically good, you must take care they shall appear so.