Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.

After a tongue has once got the knack of lying, it is not to be imagined how impossible almost it is to reclaim it. Whence it comes to pass, that we see some men, who are otherwise very honest, so subject to this vice.

... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.