Fine Friendship Requires Duration Rather Than Fitful

He Who Hath Many Friends Hath None.

Of Means Of Persuading By Speaking There Are Three Species: Some Consist In The Character Of The Speaker; Others In The Disposing The Hearer A Certain Way; Others In The Thing Itself Which Is Said, By Reason Of Its Proving, Or Appearing To Prove The Point.

Moral Qualities Are So Constituted As To Be Destroyed By Excess And By Deficiency . . .

The Greatest Thing By Far Is To Have A Command Of Metaphor. This Alone Cannot Be Imparted By Another; It Is The Mark Of Genius, For To Make Good Metaphors Implies An Eye For Resemblances.

We Are What We Do. Excellence, Therefore, Is Not An Act, But A Habit.