If We Did Not Flatter Ourselves, The

Weakness Of Character Is The Only Defect Which Cannot Be Amended.

It Is Easy To Be Wise On Behalf Of Others Than To Be So For Ourselves.

Not To Love Is In Love An Infallible Means Of Being Loved.

It Is A Mistake To Imagine, That The Violent Passions Only, Such As Ambition And Love, Can Triumph Over The Rest. Idleness, Languid As It Is, Often Masters Them All; She Influences All Our Designs And Actions, And Insensibly Consumes And Destroys Both Passions And Virtues.

Tastes In Young People Are Changed By Natural Impetuosity, And In The Aged Are Preserved By Habit.