True friends are two people who are comfortable sharing silence together.
Now every one must do after his kind, be he asp or angel, and these must.
The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.
Besides the general infusion of wit to heighten civility, the direct splendor of intellectual power is ever welcome in fine society, as the costliest addition to its rule and its credit.
The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.