Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

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

Hope is a vigorous principle; it is furnished with light and heat to advise and execute; it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost. And thus, by perpetually pushing and assurance, it puts a difficulty out of countenance, and makes a seeming impossibility give way.

Envy, like a cold prison, benumbs and stupefies; and, conscious of its own impotence, folds its arms in despair.

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.

Prudence is a necessary ingredient in all the virtues, without which they degenerate into folly and excess.

He that would be a master must draw from the life as well as copy from originals, and join theory and experience together.