Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

Of all the grief's that harass the distressed; sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

No weakness of the human mind has more frequently incurred animadversion, than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the easiness with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated.