He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.

Unconstraint is the grace of conversation.

Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils, which canker enjoyment, and undermine security. The visit of an invader is necessarily rare, but domestic animosities allow no cessation.

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.

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

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.