Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

To be gentle is the test of a lady.

Virtue dwells at the head of a river, to which we cannot get but by rowing against the stream.

Virtue is the truest liberty.

Business is the salt of life, which not only gives a grateful smack to it, but dries up those crudities that would offend, preserves from putrefaction and drives off all those blowing flies that would corrupt it.

A sentence well couched takes both the sense and understanding. I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom.

Take heed of a speedy professing friend; love is never lasting which flames before it burns.