There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch.

Upon laying a weight in one of the scales, inscribed eternity, though I threw in that of time, prosperity, affliction, wealth, and poverty, which seemed very ponderous, they were not able to stir the opposite balance.

A friend exaggerates a man's virtues; an enemy inflames his crimes.

The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.

No man writes a book without meaning something, though he may not have the faculty of writing consequentially and expressing his meaning.

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.