Ornaments Were Invented By Modesty.

There Is In The Soul A Taste For The Good, Just As There Is In The Body An Appetite For Enjoyment.

I Resemble The Poplar,--that Tree Which, Even When Old, Still Looks Young.

We Disjoint The Mind Like The Body.

I Would Fain Coin Wisdom,—mould It, I Mean, Into Maxims, Proverbs, Sentences, That Can Easily Be Retained And Transmitted. Would That I Could Denounce And Banish From The Language Of Men—as Base Money—the Words By Which They Cheat And Are Cheated!

Politeness Is The Flower Of Humanity.