That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series of Employments during that Space of Time. This kind of Self-Examination would give them a true State of themselves, and incline them to consider seriously what they are about. One Day would rectifie the Omissions of another, and make a Man weigh all those indifferent Actions, which, though they are easily forgotten, must certainly be accounted for.

The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit.

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.