In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

With what hope can we endeavor to persuade the ladies that the time spent at the toilet is lost in vanity.

Man's chief merit consists in resisting the impulses of his nature.

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one.

Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal.

Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.