There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.


Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life (ed. 1807)


There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.