Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

He that voluntarily continues in ignorance, is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

Where there is emulation, there will be vanity; where there is vanity, there will be folly.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise... Let him take a course of chemistry, or a course of rope-dance, or a course of any thing to which he is inclined at the time. Let him contrive to have as many retreats for his mind as he can, as many things to which it can fly from itself.

Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to the gross employments of rusticks or mechanics, so the most heroick sentiments will lose their efficacy