Mutual Cowardice Keeps Us In Peace.

Credulity Is The Common Failing Of Inexperienced Virtue; And He Who Is Spontaneously Suspicious May Justly Be Charged With Radical Corruption.

Sorrow Is The Mere Rust Of The Soul. Activity Will Cleanse And Brighten It.

Disease Generally Begins That Equality Which Death Completes.

Every Man Is Rich Or Poor According To The Proportion Between His Desires And His Enjoyments.

What We Read With Inclination Makes A Much Stronger Impression. If We Read Without Inclination, Half The Mind Is Employed In Fixing The Attention; So There Is But One Half To Be Employed On What We Read.