Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

No wonder, Sir, that he is vain; a man who is perpetually flattered in every mode that can be conceived. So many bellows have blown the fire, that one wonders he is not by this time become a cinder.

Misery and shame are nearly allied.

The friendship which is to be practised or expected by common mortals, must take its rise from mutual pleasure, and must end when the power ceases of delighting each other.

Babies do not want to hear about babies; they like to be told of giants and castles.