Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

The praise of an ignorant man is only good-will, and you should receive his kindness as he is a good neighbor in society, and not as a good judge of your actions in point of fame and reputation.

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

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

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

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.

Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.