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.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

A Woman is naturally more helpless than the other Sex; and a Man of Honour and Sense should have this in his View in all Manner of Commerce with her.

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

The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.