The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Sir, when you have seen one green field, you have seen all green fields. Let us walk down Cheapside.

From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise

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.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.