Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

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

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.

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

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

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.

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.