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.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.

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.

A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.