A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.

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.

It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

Jesters do often prove prophets.