Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears, and depend upon it, you will catch their judgments, such as they are.

A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.

Let your letter be written as accurately as you are able,--I mean with regard to language, grammar, and stops; for as to the matter of it the less trouble you give yourself the better it will be. Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.

One of the greatest difficulties in civil war is, that more art is required to know what should be concealed from our friends, than what ought to be done against our enemies.

Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.