The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

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

Fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it, nor any organ in the body to relish it; an object of desire placed out of the possibility of fruition.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.