Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
Content thyself to be obscurely good.
The woman that deliberates is lost.
The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.
There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.
True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.