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.

Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble or encumbrance.

Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.

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

A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading.

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

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