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.

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

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

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.

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

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.