Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great occasion or interest offers itself to them.

Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.

The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.