Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.