It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.

Modesty never rages, never murmurs, never pouts; when it is ill-treated, it pines, it beseeches, it languishes.