If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary.

For many wish not so much to be, as to seem to be, endowed with real virtue.

Strain every nerve to gain your point.

Let flattery, the handmaid of the vices, be far removed .

That man is guilty of impertinence who considers not the circumstances of time, or engrosses the conversation, or makes himself the subject of his discourse, or pays no regard to the company he is in.

We are all excited by the love of praise, and the noblest are most influenced by glory.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.