It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.
Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.
Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves; in women, from the contrary.
A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.
We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
So geographers, in Africa maps, With savage pictures fill their gaps, And o'er uninhabitable downs Place elephants for want of towns