For wheresoe'er I turn my ravish'd eyes, Gay gilded scenes and shining prospects rise, Poetic fields encompass me around, And still I seem to tread on classic ground.

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.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.