To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key.

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.

Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us.

Do not crowd the understanding; it can comprehend so much and no more. A pint pot will not contain the measure of a quart.

The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.

Without big words, how could many people say small things?

We find ourselves less witty in remembering what we have said than in dreaming of what we would have said.