Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

He submits himself to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

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

He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action.

Strange that cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage.

Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.