Royal favorites are often obliged to carry their complaisance farther than they meant. They live for their master's pleasure and they die for his convenience.

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.

Rats and conquerors must expect no mercy in misfortune.