Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.

There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honoris a private station.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.