A Man Does Not Please Long When

It Is Safer To Do Most Men Harm Than To Do Them Too Much Good.

It Is Not Enough To Have Great Qualities; We Should Also Have The Management Of Them.

Absence Abates A Moderate Passion And Intensifies A Great One - As The Wind Blows Out A Candle But Fans Fire Into Flame.

The Soul's Maladies Have Their Relapses Like The Body's. What We Take For A Cure Is Often Just A Momentary Rally Or A New Form Of The Disease.

People Are Often Vain Of Their Passions, Even Of The Worst, But Envy Is A Passion So Timid And Shame-faced That No One Ever Dare Avow Her.