A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.

A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.