True wisdom consists of tracing effects to their causes.

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease.

Silence is become his mother tongue.

Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.

The first blow is half the battle.