The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.

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

Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.