The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.

A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.

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.

The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.

He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and colour through all the fluctuation of things.