It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

Without natural gifts technical rules are useless.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.