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

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.

Content thyself to be obscurely good.

Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.

The gloomy months of November, when the people of England hang and drown themselves.

Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.