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.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

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.

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.

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

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.