Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

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

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

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

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.

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