Virtue Only Is The True Beauty.

Beauty Is An Accidental And Transient Good.

The Nature Of Familiar Letters, Written, As It Were, To The Moment, While The Heart Is Agitated By Hopes And Fears, On Events Undecided, Must Plead An Excuse For The Bulk Of A Collection Of This Kind. Mere Facts And Characters Might Be Comprised In A Much Smaller Compass: But, Would They Be Equally Interesting?

Quantity In Diet Is More To Be Regarded Than Quality. A Full Meal Is A Great Enemy Both To Study And Industry.

The Grace That Makes Every Grace Amiable Is Humility.

Chastity, Like Piety, Is A Uniform Grace.