In the pleading of cases nothing pleases so much as brevity.

Too much polishing weakens rather than improves a work.

It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.

For however often a man may receive an obligation from you, if you refuse a request, all former favors are effaced by this one denial.

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it.

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.

Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.