Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

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

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

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.

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

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self.