In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.
All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.
She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.
'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.
When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.