Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

Good men must be affectionate men.