The world will never be in any manner of order or tranquility until men are firmly convinced that conscience, honor and credit are all in one interest

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

How few there are who are furnished with abilities sufficient to recommend their actions to the admiration of the world, and distinguish themselves from the rest of mankind.

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.

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

Nothing is more silly than the pleasure some people take in "speaking their minds." A man of this make will say a rude thing for the mere pleasure of saying it, when an opposite behavior, full as innocent, might have preserved his friend, or made his fortune.

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.