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.

There is no vice which mankind carries to such wild extremes as that of avarice.

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.

Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of.

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.