A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.

Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.

Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.