Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

Between a Man and his Wife nothing ought to rule but Love. Believe nothing against another but on good authority; and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

Death cannot kill that which does not die.

A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.