Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .
Man's best support is a very dear friend.
He has no worse enemy than himself.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.
That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.