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.

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.

Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

Health and cheerfulness naturally beget each other.

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

There is a great amity between designing and art.