Laws teach us to know when we commit injury and when we suffer it.

As pride sometimes is hid under humility, idleness if often covered by turbulence and hurry.

An epithet or metaphor drawn from nature ennobles art; an epithet or metaphor drawn from art degrades nature.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Unconstraint is the grace of conversation.

Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.

There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.