Conceit Causes More Conversation Than Wit.

It Is Easier For A Man To Be Thought Fit For An Employment That He Has Not, Than For One He Stands Already Possessed Of, And Is Exercising.

Being A Blockhead Is Sometimes The Best Security Against Being Cheated By A Man Of Wit.

We Endeavor To Make A Virtue Of The Faults We Are Unwilling To Correct.

A Man Of Understanding Finds Less Difficulty In Submitting To A Wrong-headed Fellow, Than In Attempting To Set Him Right.

That Good Disposition Which Boasts Of Being Most Tender Is Often Stifled By The Least Urging Of Self-interest.