When a man has been guilty of any vice or folly, the best atonement he can make for it is to warn others not to fall into the like.

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.

The memory is perpetually looking back when we have nothing present to entertain us. It is like those repositories in animals that are filled with food, on which they may ruminate when their present pastures fail.

Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.

In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.

The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.