Great Men Should Not Have Great Faults.

Selfishness Is The Grand Moving Principle Of Nine-tenths Of Our Actions.

The Mind Is Always The Patsy Of The Heart.

It Takes More Strength Of Character To Withstand Good Fortune Than Bad.

Our Desires Always Disappoint Us; For Though We Meet With Something That Gives Us Satisfaction, Yet It Never Thoroughly Answers Our Expectation. [however Disappointment Can Always Be Removed If We Remember It Could Have Turned Out Worse.]

Familiarity Is A Suspension Of Almost All The Laws Of Civility, Which Libertinism Has Introduced Into Society Under The Notion Of Ease.