To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.