The first requisite of style, not only in rhetoric, but in all compositions, is perspicuity.
To know your ruling passion, examine your castles in the air.
Habits are formed, not at one stroke, but gradually and insensibly; so that, unless vigilant care be employed, a great change may come over the character without our being conscious of any.
We may print, but not stereotype, our opinions.
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.