Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

Daphne knows, with equal ease, How to vex and how to please; But the folly of her sex Makes her sole delight to vex.

Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

Lose no time to contradict her, Nor endeavor to convict her; Only take this rule along, Always to advise her wrong, And reprove her when she's right; She may then grow wise for spite.