Passion Makes Idiots Of The Cleverest Men,

It Is With True Love As It Is With Ghosts; Everyone Talks About It, But Few Have Seen It.

Self-love, As It Happens To Be Well Or Ill Conducted, Constitutes Virtue And Vice.

The Reason Why So Few People Are Agreeable In Conversation Is That Each Is Thinking More About What He Intends To Say Than Others Are Saying.

That Which Occasions So Many Mistakes In The Computations Of Men, When They Expect Return For Favors, Is That The Giver's Pride And The Receiver's Cannot Agree Upon The Value Of The Kindness Done.

To Praise Great Actions With Sincerity May Be Said To Be Taking Part In Them.