Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
Observation is an old man's memory.
A secret is seldom safe in more than one breast.
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame.
Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.