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

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.

Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses, and their capacities enlarged not only above other men, but above human comprehension itself.

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.