Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

There is no vice or folly that requires so much nicety and skill to manage as vanity; nor any which by ill management makes so contemptible a figure.

In oratory the greatest art is to hide art.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.