Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly.
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off...
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity modesty and humility a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.