When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.

Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.

A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.

Defeat serves to enlighten us.

All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.