It Is Much Easier To Seem Fitted

We Often See Malefactors, When They Are Led To Execution, Put On Resolution And A Contempt Of Death Which, In Truth, Is Nothing Else But Fearing To Look It In The Face--so That This Pretended Bravery May Very Truly Be Said To Do The Same Good Office To Their Mind That The Blindfold Does To Their Eyes.

We Often Are Consoled By Our Want Of Reason For Misfortunes That Reason Could Not Have Comforted.

We Only Confess Our Little Faults To Persuade People That We Have No Big Ones.

There Are Some People Who Would Never Have Fallen In Love If They Had Not Heard There Was Such A Thing.

There Are No Accidents So Unlucky But The Prudent May Draw Some Advantage From Them.