The Most Solid Pleasure In This Life

Nothing In The World Is So Rare As A Person One Can Always Put Up With.

I Find It Awfully Difficult To Determine If The Habit Of Talking About Oneself At Length Runs Contrary To The Basic Rules Of Propriety, Or If Instead The Man Exempt From This Vice Is Rare.

The Most Solid Pleasure In This Life Is The Empty Pleasure Of Illusion.

Men Seldom Act From A Correct Sense Of What May Be Harmful Or Useful To Them.

The Greater Part Of The People We Assign To Educate Our Sons We Know For Certain Are Not Educated. Yet We Do Not Doubt That They Can Give What They Have Not Received, A Thing Which Cannot Be Otherwise Acquired.