Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

To hear complaints is wearisome alike to the wretched and the happy.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

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.

That the happiness of man may still remain imperfect, as wants in this place are easily supplied, new wants likewise are easily created; every man, in surveying the shops of London, sees numberless instruments and conveniencies, of which, while he did not know them, he never felt the need; and yet, when use has made them familiar, wonders how life could be supported without them. Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.