Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

A few men are sufficient to broach falsehoods, which are afterwards innocently diffused by successive relaters.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

Depend upon it, sir, it is when you come close to a man in conservation that you discover what his real abilities are; to make a speech in a public assembly is a knack.

Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

They who look but little into futurity, have, perhaps, the quickest sensation of the present.