Speech belongs half to the speaker, half to the listener. The latter must prepare to receive it according to the motion it takes.

I am myself the matter of my book.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?

Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.