Common fluency of speech in many men and most women is owing to a scarcity of matter.
A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.
In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.
Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.
I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
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.