Age is rarely despised but when it is, contemptible.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that we can at any tine exact with confidence; but the celebration of those which we only feign, or desire without any vigorous endeavours to attain them, is received as a confession of sovereignty over regions never conquered, as a favourable decision of disputable claims, and is more welcome as more gratuitous.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking

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

A translator is to be like his author; it is not his business to excel him.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

The fiction of happiness is propagated by every tongue and confirmed by every look till at last all profess the joy which they do not feel and consent to yield to the general delusion.