Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.

He whose mouth is out of taste says the wine is flat.

A man never speaks of himself without losing something. What he says in his disfavor is always beleived, but when he commends himself, he arouses mistrust.

Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

Don't be afraid to say what you are not afraid to think