True enjoyments also keep people from vice.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
No man is without some quality, by the due application of which he might deserve well of the world; and whoever he be that has but little in his power should be in haste to do that little, lest he be confounded with him that can do nothing.