A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.
Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!