"To innovate is not to reform."

"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."

"There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue."

"The greater the man, the more he is the subject of calumny."

"Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are s…"