'As a man who knows how to make his education into a rule of life not a means of showing off; who can control himself and obey his own principles.' The true mirror of our discourse is the course of our lives.

There is a sort of gratification in doing good which makes us rejoice in ourselves.

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.

We should rather examine, who is better learned, than who is more learned.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.