With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

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

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.