The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken occasion to repeat it, that a good face is a letter of recommendation.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.

Content thyself to be obscurely good.

A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful sex all over charms.

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.