Old Age Is A Tyrant, Who Forbids,

We Are Not Fond Of Praising, And Never Praise Any One Except From Interested Motives. Praise Is A Clever, Concealed, And Delicate Flattery, Which Gratifies In Different Ways The Giver And The Receiver. The One Takes It As A Recompense Of His Merit, And The Other Bestows It To Display His Equity And Discernment.

There Are Certain People Fated To Be Fools; They Not Only Commit Follies By Choice, But Are Even Constrained To Do So By Fortune.

Boredom ... Causes Us To Neglect More Duties Than Does Interest.

A Man Is Sometimes Better Off Deceived About The One He Loves, Than Undeceived.

What Makes Vanity So Insufferable To Us, Is That It Hurts Our Own.