Praise is the daughter of present power.

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

A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.

For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black is white, according as they are paid. To this society all the rest of the people are as slaves.