Vices and frailties correct each other, like acids and alkalies. If each vicious man had but one vice, I do not know how the world could go on.

Honesty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an honest man.

To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.

There is no right faith in believing what is true, unless we believe it because it is true.

Falsehood, like the dry-rot, flourishes the more in proportion as air and light are excluded.

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

Good manners are a part of good morals.