If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

If I can in any way contribute to the Diversion or Improvement of the Country in which I live, I shall leave it, when I am summoned out of it, with the secret Satisfaction of thinking that I have not lived in vain.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

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

Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.

The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

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