Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it.

Such is the weakness of our nature, that when men are a little exalted in their condition they immediately conceive they have additional senses, and their capacities enlarged not only above other men, but above human comprehension itself.

A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible.

It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

It has been a sort of maxim, that the greatest art is to conceal art; but I know not how, among some people we meet with, their greatest cunning is to appear cunning.