Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.