The Most Brilliant Fortunes Are Often Not

We Would Frequently Be Ashamed Of Our Good Deeds If People Saw All Of The Motives That Produced Them.

If We Took As Much Pains To Be What We Ought, As We Do To Deceive Others By Disguising What We Are; We Might Appear As We Are, Without Being At The Trouble Of Any Disguise.

When Fortune Surprises Us By Giving Us Some Great Office Without Having Gradually Led Us To Expect It, Or Without Having Raised Our Hopes, It Is Well Nigh Impossible To Occupy It Well, And To Appear Worthy To Fill It.

There Are No Accidents So Unlucky But The Prudent May Draw Some Advantage From Them.

A True Friend Is The Greatest Of All Blessings, And That Which We Take The Least Care Of All To Acquire.