Love, All Agreeable As It Is, Charms

The Most Brilliant Fortunes Are Often Not Worth The Littleness Required To Gain Them.

He Who Refuses Praise The First Time That It Is Offered Does So Because He Would Hear It A Second Time.

In Infants, Levity Is A Prettiness; In Men A Shameful Defect; But In Old Age, A Monstrous Folly.

We Love Much Better Those Who Endeavor To Imitate Us, Than Those Who Strive To Equal Us. For Imitation Is A Sign Of Esteem, But Competition Of Envy.

There Is No Praise We Have Not Lavished Upon Prudence; And Yet She Cannot Assure To Us The Most Trifling Event.