The Largest Ambition Has The Least Appearance

As It Is The Characteristic Of Great Wits To Say Much In Few Words, So Small Wits Seem To Have The Gift Of Speaking Much And Saying Nothing.

There Are A Great Many Men Valued In Society Who Have Nothing To Recommend Them But Serviceable Vices.

Happiness Is In The Taste, And Not In The Things.

Absence Diminishes Mediocre Passions And Increases Great Ones, As The Wind Extinguishes Candles And Fans Fires.

Second-rate Minds Usually Condemn Everything Beyond Their Grasp.