Content thyself to be obscurely good.

There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

In England we see people lulled sleep with solid and elaborate discourses of piety, who would be warmed and transported out of themselves by the bellowings and distortions of enthusiasm.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts; in a uniform manner.

Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.