Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.

There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

Wit is the lightning of the mind, reason the sunshine, and reflection the moonlight.

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.

Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.

Love in France is a comedy; in England a tragedy; in Italy an opera seria; and in Germany a melodrama.