Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses, and their capacities enlarged not only above other men, but above human comprehension itself.

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

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.

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

Simplicity of all things is the hardest to be copy.

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

A little in drink, but at all times your faithful husband.