Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.

It is the talent of human nature to run from one extreme to another.

Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.

Vision is seeing the invisible.

When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.