There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

Content has a kindly influence on the soul of man, in respect of every being to whom he stands related. It extinguishes all murmuring, repining, and ingratitude toward that Being who has allotted us our part to act in the world. It destroys all inordinate ambition; gives sweetness to the conversation, and serenity to all the thoughts; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire of them.

If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

Physic is, for the most part, only a substitute for temperance and exercise.