Jealousy Springs More From Love Of Self

Instead Of Considering That The Worst Way To Persuade Or Please Others Is To Try Thus Strongly To Please Ourselves, And That To Listen Well And To Answer Well Are Some Of The Greatest Charms We Can Have In Conversation.

The Generality Of Friends Puts Us Out Of Conceit With Friendship; Just As The Generality Of Religious People Puts Us Out Of Conceit With Religion.

Marriage Is The Only War In Which You Sleep With The Enemy.

There Are Few Things We Should Keenly Desire If We Really Knew What We Wanted.

Only The Great Can Afford To Have Great Defects.