There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

• A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
• Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
• Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
• It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow necked bottles the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out.
• Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
• In words as fashions the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic if too new or old Be not the first by whome the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
• What will a child learn sooner than a song?
• A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
• And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.
• The general cry is against ingratitude, but the complaint is misplaced, it should be against vanity; none but direct villains are capable of willful ingratitude; but almost everybody is capable of thinking he hath done more that another deserves, while the other thinks he hath received less than he deserves.