We ask advice but we mean approbation.

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

Mystery magnifies danger as the fog the sun.

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!