All This [wealth] Excludes But One Evil,

Of A Thousand Shavers, Two Do Not Shave So Much Alike As Not To Be Distinguished.

Scarce Any Man Becomes Eminently Disagreeable But By A Departure From His Real Character, And An Attempt At Something For Which Nature Or Education Has Left Him Unqualified.

A Soldier's Time Is Passed In Distress And Danger, Or In Idleness And Corruption.

The Chief Art Of Learning, As Locke Has Observed, Is To Attempt But Little At A Time. The Widest Excursions Of The Mind Are Made By Short Flights Frequently Repeated; The Most Lofty Fabrics Of Science Are Formed By The Continued Accumulation Of Single Propositions.

He That Has Too Much To Do Will Do Something Wrong.