There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest - Philip Dormer Stanhope

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one’s self to be acquainted with it.

Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon: they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compass to direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.