An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.

While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it.

Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.

While we are making up our minds as to when we shall begin. the opportunity is lost.

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.