Men who have much to say use the fewest words.
Pedantry is paraded knowledge.
Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does.
It is easier to be virtuous than it is to appear so, and it pays better.
Occasions are rare; and those, who know how to seize upon them, are rarer.
Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.