It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.
Prudence in action avails more than wisdom in conception.
Reason should direct, and appetite obey.
It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post.
It is difficult to remember all, and ungracious to omit any.
Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.