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.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.

He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.

Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.