Since our persons are not of our own making, when they are such as appear defective or uncomely, it is, methinks, an honest and laudable fortitude to dare to be ugly.

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

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

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.

Since we cannot promise our selves constant health, let us endeavour at such temper as may be our best support in the decay of it.

Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.