Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.

The limbs will quiver and move after the soul is gone.

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

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.

He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience.