It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.

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

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct Prescription.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

Misgive that you may not mistake.

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