Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such as have no relish of those arts

The ungrown glories of his beamy hair.

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

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.

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.