If you mean to profit, learn to praise.
All hunt for fame, but most mistake the way.
The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel.
With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.
He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.