A combed writing will cost both sweat and the rubbing of the brain. And combed I wish it, not frizzled or curled.

Honesty is a warrant of far more safety than fame.

If ever I should affect injustice, it would be in this, that I might do courtesies and receive none.

Human life has not a surer friend, nor oftentimes a greater enemy, than hope. It is the miserable man's god, which in the hardest gripe of calamity never fails to yield to him beams of comfort. It is the presumptuous man's devil, which leads him a while in a smooth way, and then suddenly breaks his neck.

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best.

The noblest part of a friend is an honest boldness in the notifying of errors. He that tells me of a fault, aiming at my good, I must think him wise and faithful--wise in spying that which I see not; faithful in a plain admonishment, not tainted with flattery.

He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.