Many take pleasure in spreading abroad the weakness of an exalted character.
Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me
Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
The world is grown so full of dissimulation and compliment, that men's words are hardly any signification of their thoughts.