Setting Down In Writing, Is A Lasting

Conscience Is A Judge In Every Man's Breast, Which None Can Cheat Or Corrupt, And Perhaps The Only Incorrupt Thing About Him; Yet, Inflexible And Honest As This Judge Is (however Polluted The Bench On Which He Sits), No Man Can, In My Opinion, Enjoy Any Applause Which Is Not There Adjudged To Be His Due.

As A Great Part Of The Uneasiness Of Matrimony Arises From Mere Trifles,, It Would Be Wise In Every Young Married Man To Enter Into An Agreement With His Wife, That In All Disputes Of This Kind The Party Who Was Most Convinced They Were Right Should Always Surrender The Victory. By Which Means Both Would Be More Forward To Give Up The Cause.

Nothing More Aggravates Ill Success Than The Near Approach Of Good.

The Good Or Evil We Confer On Others Very Often, I Believe, Recoils On Ourselves; For As Men Of A Benign Disposition Enjoy Their Own Acts Of Beneficence Equally With Those To Whom They Are Done, So There Are Scarce Any Natures So Entirely Diabolical As To Be Capable Of Doing Injuries Without Paying Themselves Some Pangs For The Ruin Which They Bring On Their Fellow-creatures.

Beauty May Be The Object Of Liking--great Qualities Of Admiration--good Ones Of Esteem--but Love Only Is The Object Of Love.