Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing their Zeal for the Publick, let it not be against those who are perhaps of the same Family, or at least of the same Religion or Nation, but against those who are the open, professed, undoubted Enemies of their Faith, Liberty, and Country.

Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?

If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude to the beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for.