Authors, Like Coins, Grow Dear As They

To Dazzle Let The Vain Design, To Raise The Thought And Touch The Heart, Be Thine!

Some Men's Wit Is Like A Dark Lantern, Which Serves Their Own Turn And Guides Them Their Own Way, But Is Never Known (according To The Scripture Phrase) Either To Shine Forth Before Men, Or To Glorify Their Father In Heaven.

Blessed Is The Man Who Expects Nothing, For He Shall Never Be Disappointed Was The Ninth Beatitude.

Let Fortune Do Her Worst, Whatever She Makes Us Lose, So Long As She Never Makes Us Lose Our Honesty And Our Independence.

Know Then This Truth, Enough For Man To Know Virtue Alone Is Happiness Below.