It is not difficult to conceive, however, that for many reasons a man writes much better than he lives. For without entering into refined speculations, it may be shown much easier to design than to perform. A man proposes his schemes of life in a state of abstraction and disengagement, exempt from the enticements of hope, the solicitations of affection, the importunities of appetite, or the depressions of fear.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

Each person's work is always a portrait of himself.

If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.

Commerce can never be at a stop while one man wants what another can supply; and credit will never be denied, while it is likely to be repaid with profit.