A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.

Better too much form than too little.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

It may be worth noticing as a curious circumstance, when persons past forty before they were at all acquainted form together a very close intimacy of friendship. For grafts of old wood to take, there must be a wonderful congeniality between the trees.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.