If Fortune Wishes To Make A Man

A Man Who Shows No Defect Is A Fool Or A Hypocrite, Whom We Should Mistrust. There Are Defects So Bound To Fine Qualities That They Announce Them,--defects Which It Is Well Not To Correct.

Ask The Young. They Know Everything.

Imitate Time; It Destroys Everything Slowly; It Undermines, It Wears Away, It Detaches, It Does Not Wrench.

It Is Easier To Be Mistaken About The True Than The Beautiful.

In The Commerce Of Language Use Only Coin Of Gold And Silver.