No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.

True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.

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

Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing their Zeal for the Publick, let it not be against those who are perhaps of the same Family, or at least of the same Religion or Nation, but against those who are the open, professed, undoubted Enemies of their Faith, Liberty, and Country.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.