The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways findtheir Account in the Speculation of the Day.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.

Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.