Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

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

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.

Wit, like hunger, will be with great difficulty restrained from falling on vice and ignorance, where there is great plenty and variety of food.

In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.