Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.
Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood.
A writer who obtains his full purpose loses himself in his own lustre.
Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb always a coxcomb.
Oats. A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.
It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.