There Are Few Minds To Which Tyranny

None Can Be Pleased Without Praise, And Few Can Be Praised Without Falsehood.

There Is Nothing Against Which An Old Man Should Be So Much Upon His Guard As Putting Himself To Nurse.

Scarce Any Man Becomes Eminently Disagreeable But By A Departure From His Real Character, And An Attempt At Something For Which Nature Or Education Has Left Him Unqualified.

A Man Who Uses A Great Many Words To Express His Meaning Is Like A Bad Marksman Who, Instead Of Aiming A Single Stone At An Object, Takes Up A Handful And Throws At It In Hopes He May Hit.

Such Seems To Be The Disposition Of Man, That Whatever Makes A Distinction Produces Rivalry.