Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
Genuine witticisms surprise those who say them as much as those who listen to them; they arise in us in spite of us, or, at least, without our participation,--like everything inspired.
Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
How many people become abstract as a way of appearing profound.
The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.