There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.
It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.
Books wind into the heart.
Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.