There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good-Breeding.

There is a great amity between designing and art.

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.

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

An honest man, that is not quite sober, has nothing to fear.

The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration.

A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.