Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

The more one works, the more willing one is to work.

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.

The greatest dangers have their allurements, if the want of success is likely to be attended with a degree of glory. Middling dangers are horrid, when the loss of reputation is the inevitable consequence of ill success.

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.