A Great Many Men's Gratitude Is Nothing

It Is Harder To Hide The Feelings We Have Than To Feign The Ones We Do Not Have.

Virtue Would Go Far If Vanity Did Not Keep It Company.

Self-love Is More Cunning Than The Most Cunning Man In The World.

Our Desires Always Disappoint Us; For Though We Meet With Something That Gives Us Satisfaction, Yet It Never Thoroughly Answers Our Expectation. [however Disappointment Can Always Be Removed If We Remember It Could Have Turned Out Worse.]

Extreme Boredom Provides Its Own Antidote.