Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.

People hate who makes you feel one's inferiority.

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.

Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

A man who cannot command his temper, his attention, and his countenance should not think of being a man of business.

Unlike my subject will I frame my song, It shall be witty and it shan't be long.