Love is a second life.
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.
Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.
Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.
Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.