Wisdom and virtue are by no means sufficient, without the supplemental laws of good-breeding, to secure freedom from degenerating into rudeness, or self esteem from swelling into insolence. A thousand incivilities may be committed, and a thousand offices neglected. without any remorse of conscience, or reproach from reason.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

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

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

A lawyer has no business with the justice or injustice of the cause which he undertakes, unless his client asks his opinion, and then he is bound to give it honestly. The justice or injustice of the cause is to be decided by the judge.

To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.

If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.