Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

When all thy mercies, O my God, My rising soul surveys, Transported with the view I'm lost, in wonder, love and praise.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

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