Men More Easily Renounce Their Interests Than

A Man's Wits Are Better Employed In Bearing Up Under The Misfortunes That Lie Upon Him At Present Than In Foreseeing Those That May Come Upon Him Hereafter.

Our Virtues Are Often, In Reality, No Better Than Vices Disguised.

We Are Lazier In Our Minds Than In Our Bodies.

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 Give Advice, We Do Not Inspire Conduct.