There Are But Very Few Men Clever

Those Who Give Too Much Attention To Trifling Things Become Generally Incapable Of Great Ones.

What Makes Us So Often Discontented With Those Who Transact Business For Us Is That They Almost Always Abandon The Interest Of Their Friends For The Interest Of The Business, Because They Wish To Have The Honor Of Succeeding In That Which They Have Undertaken.

We May Say Of Agreeableness, As Distinct From Beauty, That It Is A Symmetry Whose Rules Are Unknown.

The Generality Of Men Have, Like Plants, Latent Properties, Which Chance Brings To Light.

Fortune Never Appears So Blind As To Those To Whom She Does No Good.