Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

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

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.

For my part I think the Learned, and Unlearned Blockhead pretty equal; for 'tis all one to me, whether a Man talk Nonsense, or unintelligible Sense, I am diverted and edified alike by either; the one enjoys himself less, but suffers his Friends to do it more; the other enjoys himself and his own Humour enough, but will let no body else do it in his Company.

The Soul debases her self, when she sets her affections on any thing but her creator.

If none were to Marry, but Men of strict Vertue and Honour, I doubt the World would be but thinly peopled.

Women are from their very infancy debarred those advantages with the want of which they are aftewards reproached, and nursed up in those vices which will hereafter be upbraided to them. So partial are men as to expect bricks when they afford no straw.