Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
People prefer to believe what they want to be true.
Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.