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

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

Anger requires that the offender should not only be made to grieve in his turn, but to grieve for that particular wrong which has been done by him.

As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without contributing in some degree, though the book itself be afterwards totally forgotten, to form the character.

Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.

The Eastern monarch who proclaimed a reward to him who should discover a new pleasure, would have deserved well of mankind had he stipulated that it should be blameless.

Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.