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

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.

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

The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.

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.

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

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