Everybody Hates A Prodigy, Detests An Old

Concealed Talent Brings No Reputation.

Human Affairs Are So Obscure And Various That Nothing Can Be Clearly Known. This Was The Sound Conclusion Of The Academic Sceptics, Who Were The Least Surly Of Philosophers.

...it Is A Sneaking Piece Of Cowardice For Authors To Put Feigned Names To Their Works, As If, Like Bastards Of Their Brain, They Were Afraid To Own Them.

The Most Disadvantageous Peace Is Better Than The Most Just War.

It Hardly Needs Explaining At Length, I Think, How Much Authority Or Beauty Is Added To Style By The Timely Use Of Proverbs. In The First Place Who Does Not See What Dignity They Confer On Style By Their Antiquity Alone?... And So To Interweave Adages Deftly And Appropriately Is To Make The Language As A Whole Glitter With Sparkles From Antiquity, Please Us With The Colours Of The Art Of Rhetoric, Gleam With Jewel-like Words Of Wisdom, And Charm Us With Titbits Of Wit And Humour.