I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter.

See in what peace a Christian can die.

Vanity is the natural weakness of an ambitious man, which exposes him to the secret scorn and derision of those he converses with, and ruins the character he is so industrious to advance by it.

There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

I have often reflected within myself on this unaccountable humor in womankind of being smitten with everything that is showy and superficial, and on the numberless evils that befall the sex from this light fantastical disposition.