What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

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.

Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.