Politeness Smooths Wrinkles.

We Find Little In A Book But What We Put There. But In Great Books, The Mind Finds Room To Put Many Things.

Only Just The Right Quantum Of Wit Should Be Put Into A Book; In Conversation A Little Excess Is Allowable.

Attention Is Like A Narrow Mouthed Vessel; Pour Into It What You Have To Say Cautiously, And, As It Were, Drop By Drop.

Religion Is The Only Metaphysic That The Multitude Can Understand And Adopt.

Maxims Are To The Intellect What Laws Are To Actions; They Do Not Enlighten, But They Guide And Direct, And, Although Themselves Blind, Are Protective.