The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

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

One would fancy that the zealots in atheism would be exempt from the single fault which seems to grow out of the imprudent fervor of religion. But so it is, that irreligion is propagated with as much fierceness and contention, wrath and indignation, as if the safety of mankind depended upon it.

It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.

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.

It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.