Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit, where it is out of place.

I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.

Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.