It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.

The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning; and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence.

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.

In rising sighs and falling tears.

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

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.