I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series of Employments during that Space of Time. This kind of Self-Examination would give them a true State of themselves, and incline them to consider seriously what they are about. One Day would rectifie the Omissions of another, and make a Man weigh all those indifferent Actions, which, though they are easily forgotten, must certainly be accounted for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

As Vivacity is the Gift of Women, Gravity is that of Men.

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.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.