Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

T is as cheap sitting as standing.

Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.

Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.

If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other geometrical terms.