The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one will not reform it.
A poor spirit is poorer than a poor purse. A very few pounds a year would ease a man of the scandal of avarice.
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
We have an intuitive sense of our duty.
The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
Orators inflame the people, whose anger is really but a short fit of madness.