As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he ought to be silent on some other subject of which he has but a slight knowledge; if such an illustrious man ventures beyond the bounds of his capacity, he loses his way and talks like a fool.

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.