Nature Makes Merit, And Fortune Puts It

There Is Merit Without Rank, But There Is No Rank Without Some Merit.

Plenty Of People Want To Be Pious, But No One Yearns To Be Humble.

We Are Inconsolable At Being Deceived By Our Enemies And Being Betrayed By Our Friends, Yet We Are Often Content In Be Being Treated Like That By Our Own Selves.

Some People Are So Extremely Whiffling And Inconsiderable That They Are As Far From Any Real Faults As From Substantial Virtues.

A Man Is Ridiculous Less Through The Characteristics He Has Than Through Those He Affects To Have.