The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.

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

Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour.

It is easier for an artful Man, who is not in Love, to persuade his Mistress he has a Passion for her, and to succeed in his Pursuits, than for one who loves with the greatest Violence. True Love hath ten thousand Griefs, Impatiencies and Resentments, that render a Man unamiable in the Eyes of the Person whose Affection he sollicits.

The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character.