Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes
Contempt for private wrongs was one of the features of ancient morals.
Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.