Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured.

For my own part, I am apt to join in the opinion with those who believe that all the regions of Nature swarm with spirits, and that we have multitudes of spectators on all our actions when we think ourselves most alone.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

I... recommend to every one of my Readers, the keeping a Journal of their Lives for one Week, and setting down punctually their whole Series of Employments during that Space of Time. This kind of Self-Examination would give them a true State of themselves, and incline them to consider seriously what they are about. One Day would rectifie the Omissions of another, and make a Man weigh all those indifferent Actions, which, though they are easily forgotten, must certainly be accounted for.

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.