The Temperament That Produces A Talent For

Though Men Are Apt To Flatter And Exalt Themselves With Their Great Achievements, Yet These Are, In Truth, Very Often Owing Not So Much To Design As Chance.

There Are Few People Who Are More Often In The Wrong Than Those Who Cannot Endure To Be So.

The Desire Which Urges Us To Deserve Praise Strengthens Our Good Qualities, And Praise Given To Wit, Valour, And Beauty, Tends To Increase Them.

Old Men Delight In Giving Good Advice As A Consolation For The Fact That They Can No Longer Set Bad Examples.

It Is A Species Of Coquetry To Make A Parade Of Never Practising It.