Many Know How To Please, But Know

It Is Better In Some Respects To Be Admired By Those With Whom You Live Than To Be Loved By Them; And This Not On Account Of Any Gratification Of Vanity, But Because Admiration Is So Much More Tolerant Than Love.

Some Persons, Instead Of Making A Religion For Their God, Are Content To Make A God Of Their Religion.

Many A Man Has A Kind Of A Kaleidoscope, Where The Bits Of Broken Glass Are His Own Merits And Fortunes; And They Fall Into Harmonious Arrangements, And Delight Him, Often Most Mischievously And To His Ultimate Detriment; But They Are A Present Pleasure.

Men Of Much Depth Of Mind Can Bear A Great Deal Of Counsel; For It Does Not Easily Deface Their Own Character, Nor Render Their Purposes Indistinct.

There Is Hardly A More Common Error Than That Of Taking The Man Who Has One Talent, For A Genius.