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

To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.

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.

God is His own Design and End, and that there is no other Worthy of Him.

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

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