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

There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

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.

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

Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.

True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

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.