Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.

An English tongue, if refined to a certain standard, might perhaps be fixed forever.

Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.

Vision is seeing the invisible.

Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes ill-returns to his benefactor, must needs be a common enemy to the rest of the mankind, from where he has received no obligations and therefore such man is not fit to live.

Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.

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.