A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the … - Joseph Addison

If men would consider not so much where they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.

Rais'd of themselves, their genuine charms they boast, And those who paint them truest praise them most.

The discreet man finds out the talents of those he converses with, and knows how to apply them to proper uses. Accordingly, if we look into particular communities and divisions of men, we may observe that it is the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, who guides the conversation, and gives measures to the society.