The Principal Point Of Cleverness Is To

We Should Gain More By Letting The World See What We Are Than By Trying To Seem What We Are Not.

L'absence Diminue Les Mediocres Passions, Et Augmente Les Grandes,comme Le Vent Eteint Les Bougies, Et Allume Le Feu. Absence Diminishes Commonplace Passions, And Increases Great Ones, As Wind Extinguishes Candles And Kindles Fire.

Some Follies Are Caught, Like Contagious Diseases.

There Are Heroes In Evil As Well As In Good.

Why Is It That Our Memory Is Good Enough To Retain The Least Triviality That Happens To Us, And Yet Not Good Enough To Recollect How Often We Have Told It To The Same Person?