In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.

The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails.

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you please none; If you flatter only one or two, you offend the rest.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.