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.

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.

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

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

Praise from an enemy is the most pleasing of all commendations.

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

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his solitude, his afflictions, and his last moments.... [In these situations such people show themselves] in solitude, incapable or rapture or elevation, ... in distress, [with] a halter or a pistol the only refuge [they] can fly to, ... [and liable to conversion] at the approach of death.