Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.
What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.
Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.
In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.
Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams.
Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.