If the commending others well, did not recommend ourselves, there would be few Panegyricks.
Mens Vanity will often dispose them to be commended into very troublesome Employments.
The desiring to be remember’d when we are dead, is to so little purpose, that it is fit Men should, as they generally are, be disappointed in it. Nevertheless, the desire of leaving a good Name behind us is so honourable to ourselves, and so useful to the World, that good Sense must not be heard against it.
Heraldry is one of those foolish Things that may yet be too much despised.
The Contempt of Scutcheons is as much a Disease in this Age, as the over-valuing them was in former Times.
There is a good Use to be made of the most contemptible Things, and an ill one of those that are the most valuable.
Of Money.
If Men considered how many Things there are that Riches cannot buy, they would not be so fond of them.
The Things to be bought with Money, are such as least deserve the giving a Price for them.
Wit and Money are so apt to be abused, that Men generally make a shift to be the worse for them.