Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.

When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.