Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

The fruits of the earth do not more obviously require labor and cultivation to prepare them for our use and subsistence, than our faculties demand instruction and regulation in order to qualify us to become upright and valuable members of society, useful to others, or happy ourselves.

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all.

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.