Beauty Is An Accidental And Transient Good.

The First Step In Achieving Prosperity And Wealth Is Learning To Appreciate What You Already Have.

Necessity May Well Be Called The Mother Of Invention But Calamity Is The Test Of Integrity.

A Man Who Flatters A Woman Hopes Either To Find Her A Fool Or To Make Her One.

It Is A Happy Art To Know When One Has Said Enough. I Would Leave My Hearers Wishing Me To Say More Rather Than Give Them Cause Toshow, By Their Inattention, That I Had Said Too Much.

The Nature Of Familiar Letters, Written, As It Were, To The Moment, While The Heart Is Agitated By Hopes And Fears, On Events Undecided, Must Plead An Excuse For The Bulk Of A Collection Of This Kind. Mere Facts And Characters Might Be Comprised In A Much Smaller Compass: But, Would They Be Equally Interesting?