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

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

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

When dunces are satiric, I take it for a panegyric.

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.