It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

I consider time as an in immense ocean, in which many noble authors are entirely swallowed up.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.