Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage.

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest and acquaintance.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.

Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,--balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit.