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.

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without taking notice on't.

Women need not take up with mean things, since (if they are not wanting to themselves) they are capable of the best.

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

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

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