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

Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.

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

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript

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 man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

Whoever would be wise should read the Proverbs; whoever would be holy should read the Psalms.