Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

A great large book is a great evil.

Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and entertainment have, in that action, bound themselves to be good-humored, affable, discreet, forgiving, patient, and joyful, with respect to each other's frailties and perfections, to the end of their lives.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.

A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.