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.

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.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.

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

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

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.