Amongst All Other Vices There Is None

Just As In Habiliments It Is A Sign Of Weakness To Wish To Make Oneself Noticeable By Some Peculiar And Unaccustomed Fashion, So, In Language, The Quest For New-fangled Phrases And Little-known Words Comes From A Puerile And Pedantic Ambition.

There Is No Course Of Life So Weak And Sottish As That Which Is Managed By Order, Method, And Discipline.

I See This Evident, That We Willingly Accord To Piety Only The Services That Flatter Our Passions.

In The Education Of Children There Is Nothing Like Alluring The Interest And Affection; Otherwise You Only Make So Many Asses Laden With Books.

And Obstinacy Is The Sister Of Constancy, At Least In Vigour And Stability.