Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty.

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.

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.

We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.