A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.