The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.

We ask advice but we mean approbation.

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.