Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

If ridicule were employed to laugh men out of vice and folly, it might be of some use.

Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted.

The moral perfections of the Deity, the more attentively, we consider, the more perfectly still shall we know them.