An intelligent person should put money in the beginning, but not in heart

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

I shall be like that tree-I shall die at the top.

The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

Had Windham possessed discretion in debate, or Sheridan in conduct, they might have ruled their age.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.