Truth ennobles man; learning adorns him.
The temperate man’s pleasures are always durable, because they are regular; and all his life is calm and serene, because it is innocent.
Those faults which arise from the will are intolerable; for dull and insipid is every performance where inclination bears no part.
Economy is no disgrace; for it is better to live on a little than to outlive a great deal.
To err is human; to forgive, divine.[59]
Never speak concerning what you are ignorant of; speak little of what you know; and whether you speak or say not a word, do it with judgement.[{59}]
Semicolons divide the simple members of a compound sentence, and a comma and dash come after the last sentence and before the general conclusion:
To give an early preference to honour above gain, when they stand in competition; to despise every advantage which cannot be attained without dishonest arts; to brook no meanness, and stoop to no dissimulation,—are the indications of a great mind, the presages of future eminence and usefulness in life.[60]
The Colon.