It is the first rule in oratory that a man must appear such as he would persuade others to be: and that can be accomplished only by the force of his life.

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.

A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.

Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own.