Narrowness Of Mind Is Often The Cause

The Passions Are The Only Orators That Always Persuade: They Are, As It Were, A Natural Art, The Rules Of Which Are Infallible; And The Simplest Man With Passion Is More Persuasive Than The Most Eloquent Without It.

Honest People Will Respect Us For Our Merit: The Public, For Our Luck.

Our Desires Always Disappoint Us; For Though We Meet With Something That Gives Us Satisfaction, Yet It Never Thoroughly Answers Our Expectation. [however Disappointment Can Always Be Removed If We Remember It Could Have Turned Out Worse.]

Weakness Is More Opposed To Virtue Than Is Vice.

Innocence Does Not Find Near So Much Protection As Guilt.