Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.

We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us.

Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.