Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.