Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons; to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.

Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.