It Requires No Small Degree Of Ability

It's Easier To Know People In General Than One Person In Particular

Silence Is The Best Tactic For He Who Distrusts Himself.

Pride Does Not Wish To Owe And Vanity Does Not Wish To Pay.

When Fortune Surprises Us By Giving Us Some Great Office Without Having Gradually Led Us To Expect It, Or Without Having Raised Our Hopes, It Is Well Nigh Impossible To Occupy It Well, And To Appear Worthy To Fill It.

Neither Love Nor Fire Can Subsist Without Perpetual Motion; Both Cease To Live So Soon As They Cease To Hope, Or To Fear.