Singularity Is Only Pardonable In Old Age

Without Some Dissimulation No Business Can Be Carried On At All.

Sincerity Is The Most Compendious Wisdom.

Everything Is Worth Seeing Once, And The More One Sees The Less One Either Wonders Or Admires.

The Greatest Dangers Have Their Allurements, If The Want Of Success Is Likely To Be Attended With A Degree Of Glory. Middling Dangers Are Horrid, When The Loss Of Reputation Is The Inevitable Consequence Of Ill Success.

There Is Not A More Prudent Maxim, Than To Live With One's Enemies As If They May One Day Become One's Friends; As It Commonly Happens, Sooner Or Later, In The Vicissitudes Of Political Affairs.