Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?

Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

Persons in great stations have seldom their true character drawn till several years after their death. Their personal friendships and enmities must cease, and the parties they were engaged in be at an end, before their faults or their virtues can have justice done them. When writers have the least opportunities of knowing the truth, they are in the best disposition to tell it.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

Health and happiness give rise to each other.

There is no kind of false wit which has been so recommended by the practice of all ages, as that which consists in a jingle of words, and is comprehended under the general name of punning.