Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

A fool is in himself the object of pity, until he is flattered.

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.

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.

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 married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.