The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

What signifies protesting so against flattery when a person speaks well of one, it must either be true or false, you know if true, let us rejoice in his good opinion if he lies, it is a proof at least that he loves more to please me, than to sit s

Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

Language is the dress of thought; every time you talk your mind is on parade.

Though the wisdom or virtue of one can very rarely make many happy, the folly or vice of one man often make many miserable.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.