A Man Cannot Please Long Who Has

Those Whom The World Has Delighted To Honor Have Oftener Been Influenced In Their Doings By Ambition And Vanity Than By Patriotism.

Why Can We Remember The Tiniest Detail That Has Happened To Us, And Not Remember How Many Times We Have Told It To The Same Person.

Whatever Pretext We May Give For Our Affections, Often It Is Only Interest And Vanity Which Cause Them.

We Only Acknowledge Small Faults In Order To Make It Appear That We Are Free From Great Ones.

We Are Almost Always Bored By Just Those Whom We Must Not Find Boring.