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| Pray consider what a figure a man would make in the republic of letters. | | Uncategorized | |
| Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind. | | Uncategorized | |
| Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. | | Pride | |
| Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. | | Life; Reading | |
| Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. | | Reading | |
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| Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life. | | Ridicule | |
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| Sir Roger told them, with the air of a man who would not give his judgement rashly, that much might be said on both sides. | | Uncategorized | |
| Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud. | | Friends | |
| That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? | | Uncategorized | |
| The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnamity of the rich. | | Uncategorized | |
| The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding | | Quality | |
| The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment. | | Uncategorized | |
| The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. | | Uncategorized | |
| The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure; ours has severest virtue for its basis, and such a friendship ends not but with life. | | Friendship | |
