Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing their Zeal for the Publick, let it not be against those who are perhaps of the same Family, or at least of the same Religion or Nation, but against those who are the open, professed, undoubted Enemies of their Faith, Liberty, and Country.

It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age.

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