One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
There is no one who would not rather appear to know than to be taught.
The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.
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.
An evil-speaker differs from an evil-doer only in the want of opportunity.
Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.