Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.

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.

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

The greatest part of mankind labor under one delirium or another; and Don Quixote differed from the rest, not in madness, but the species of it. The covetous, the prodigal, the superstitious, the libertine, and the coffee-house politician, are all Quixotes in their several ways.

Wicked companions invite us to hell.