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

Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others.

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.

The joy of life is variety.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended amusement, in which a man shrinks to his natural dimensions, and throws aside the ornaments or disguises which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances, and to lose all effect when they become familiar. To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.