Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.
Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.