Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.
Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.
In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.