Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom
Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.
You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.
You despise a man for avarice; but you do not hate him.