Narrow minds think nothing right that is above their own capacity.
The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.
One honor won is a surety for more.
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.
The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.