Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.

A maxim is the exact and noble expression of an important and indisputable truth. Good maxims are the germs of all excellence; when firmly fixed on the memory, they nourish the will.

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.