True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

I shall endeavour to enliven Morality with Wit, and to temper Wit with Morality, that my Readers may, if possible, both Ways findtheir Account in the Speculation of the Day.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Most of the trades, professions, and ways of living among mankind, take their original either from the love of the pleasure, or the fear of want. The former, when it becomes too violent, degenerates into luxury, and the latter into avarice.

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.