It is a difficult task to talk to the purpose, and to put life and perspicuity into our discourse.

People's opinions of themselves are legible in their countenances.

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.

Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life in the face, and decorum in the person; it gives you the command of your head, and secures your health, and preserves you in a condition for business.

He that would relish success to a purpose should keep his passions cool, and his expectations low; and then it is possible that his fortune might exceed his fancy; for an advantage always rises by surprise; and is almost always doubled by being unlooked for.

We must not let go manifest truths because we cannot answer all questions about them.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.