For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

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

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.