Moderation Is Commonly Firm, And Firmness Is

I Am A Great Friend To Public Amusements; For They Keep People From Vice.

Advice Is Offensive, Not Because It Lays Us Open To Unexpected Regret, Or Convicts Us Of Any Fault Which Had Escaped Our Notice, But Because It Shows Us That We Are Known To Others As Well As To Ourselves; And The Officious Monitor Is Persecuted With Hatred, Not Because His Accusation Is False, But Because He Assumes That Superiority Which We Are Not Willing To Grant Him, And Has Dared To Detect What We Desired To Conceal.

Who Left Nothing Of Authorship Untouched, And Touched Nothing Which He Did Not Adorn. [lat., Qui Nullum Fere Scribendi Genus Non Tetigit; Nullum Quod Tetigit Non Ornavit.]

Confidence Is A Plant Of Slow Growth; Especially In An Aged Bosom

The Highest Panegyric, Therefore, That Private Virtue Can Receive, Is The Praise Of Servants.