Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.

Content thyself to be obscurely good.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

Look what a little vain dust we are!

Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.