Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.