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

Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.

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

Avoid all affectation and singularity. What is according to nature is best, and what is contrary to it is always distasteful. Nothing is graceful that is not our own.

The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.

People that have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

Modesty was designed by Providence as a guard to virtue, and that it might be always at hand it is wrought into the mechanism of the body. It is likewise proportioned to the occasions of life, and strongest in youth when passion is so too.