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

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

The only way therefore to try a Piece of Wit, is to translate it into a different Language: If it bears the Test you may pronounceit true; but if it vanishes in the Experiment you may conclude it to have been a Punn.

Good Nature, and Evenness of Temper, will give you an easie Companion for Life; Vertue and good Sense, an agreeable Friend; Love and Constancy, a good Wife or Husband. Where we meet one Person with all these Accomplishments, we find an Hundred without any one of them.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out.

Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.