A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

Those who are fond of setting things to rights, have no great objection to seeing them wrong.

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

We are not hypocrites in our sleep.

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.

In public speaking, we must appeal either to the prejudices of others, or to the love of truth and justice. If we think merely of displaying our own ability, we shall ruin every cause we undertake.