Curiosity should be as carefully cherish'd in children, as other appetites suppress'd.

Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything.

He would be laughed at, that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger, at past fifty. And he will not have much better success, who shall endeavour, at that age, to make a man reason well, or speak handsomely, who has never been used to it, though you should lay before him a collection of all the best precepts of logic or oratory.

Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.

Anger is uneasiness or discomposure of the mind upon the receipt of any injury, with a present purpose of revenge