Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Many actions calculated to procure fame are not conducive to ultimate happiness.

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

My voice is still for war.

I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.