Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Why will any man be so impertinently officious as to tell me all prospect of a future state is only fancy and delusion? Is there any merit in being the messenger of ill news. If it is a dream, let me enjoy it, since it makes me both the happier and better man.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.

Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.

Jesters do often prove prophets.