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

Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

True worth is as inevitably discovered by the facial expression, as its opposite is sure to be clearly represented there. The human face is nature's tablet, the truth is certainly written thereon.

Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.

The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak, but commonly, false, too; most of the weak are false.

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.