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

Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that it should do so, considering the unreasonable advantage which is often taken of the inequality of fortune.

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

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

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.

The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.

Not that the moderns are born with more wit than their predecessors, but, finding the world better furnished at their coming into it, they have more leisure for new thoughts, more light to direct them, and more hints to work upon.