Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolence.

Network. Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in the pursuit of truth; if he writes not to make others learned, but to boast the learning which he possesses himself, and wishes to be admired rather than understood, he counteracts the first end of writing, and justly suffers the utmost severity of censure, or the more afflicting severity of neglect.

He that never thinks can never be wise.