Our Merit Gains Us The Esteem Of

Men Give Away Nothing So Liberally As Their Advice.

He That Would Be A Great Man Must Learn To Turn Every Accident To Some Advantage.

What Renders Us So Changeable In Our Friendship Is, That It Is Difficult To Know The Qualities Of The Soul, But Easy To Know Those Of The Mind.

Jealousy Is The Greatest Of All Evils, And The One That Arouses The Least Pity In The Person Who Causes It.

We Often Make Use Of Envenomed Praise, That Reveals On The Rebound, As It Were, Defects In Those Praised Which We Dare Not Exposeany Other Way.