If It Be Usual To Be Strongly

A Man May Have Intelligence Enough To Excel In A Particular Thing And Lecture On It, And Yet Not Have Sense Enough To Know He Ought To Be Silent On Some Other Subject Of Which He Has But A Slight Knowledge; If Such An Illustrious Man Ventures Beyond The Bounds Of His Capacity, He Loses His Way And Talks Like A Fool.

A Man Can Keep Another's Secret Better Than His Own. A Woman Her Own Better Than Others.

The Most Important Things Must Be Said Simply, For They Are Spoiled By Bombast; Whereas Trivial Things Must Be Described Grandly, For They Are Supported Only By Aptness Of Expression, Tone And Manner.

The Very Impossibility Which I Find To Prove That God Is Not, Discovers To Me His Existence.

Most Men Spend The Best Part Of Their Lives Making The Remaining Part Wretched.