Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

The proper work of man, the grand drift of human life, is to follow reason, that noble spark kindled in us from heaven.

Nature has concatenated our fortunes and affections together with indissoluble bands of mutual sympathy.

Nothing of worth or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor.

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.