Good Breeding And Good Nature Do Incline

I Wish... That You Had As Much Pleasure In Following My Advice, As I Have In Giving It.

Merit And Knowledge Will Not Gain Hearts, Though They Will Secure Them When Gained.

A Certain Degree Of Fear Produces The Same Effects As Rashness.

The Vulgar Look Upon A Man, Who Is Reckoned A Fine Speaker, As A Phenomenon, A Supernatural Being, And Endowed With Some Peculiargift Of Heaven; They Stare At Him, If He Walks In The Park, And Cry, That Is He. You Will, I Am Sure, View Him In A Juster Light, And Nulla Formidine. You Will Consider Him Only As A Man Of Good Sense, Who Adorns Common Thoughts With The Graces Of Elocution, And The Elegancy Of Style. The Miracle Will Then Cease.

I Look Upon Indolence As A Sort Of Suicide; For The Man Is Effectually Destroyed, Though The Appetites Of The Brute May Survive.