A liar ought to have a good memory.

It is the heart which inspires eloquence.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.