Physic, for the most part, is nothing else but the substitute of exercise and temperance.

A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections

There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

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

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

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.

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.