When I can't talk sense, I talk metaphor.
Madame de Stael talks herself into a beauty.
Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.
The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.
Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.