Our Merit Gains Us The Esteem Of

There Are Women Who Never Had An Intrigue; But There Are Scarce Any Who Never Had But One.

A Man's Wits Are Better Employed In Bearing Up Under The Misfortunes That Lie Upon Him At Present Than In Foreseeing Those That May Come Upon Him Hereafter.

The Mark Of Extraordinary Merit Is To See Those Most Envious Of It Constrained To Praise.

How Deceitful Hope May Be, Yet She Carries Us On Pleasantly To The End Of Life.

In The Human Heart There Is A Ceaseless Birth Of Passions, So That The Destruction Of One Is Almost Always The Establishment Of Another.