Every man's reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.