Readings is to the mind what exercice is to the body.

Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.

It is a wonderful thing that so many, and they not reckoned absurd, shall entertain those with whom they converse by giving them the history of their pains and aches and imagine such narrations their quota of conversation.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

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