There Are Follies As Catching As Contagious

We Are Better Pleased To See Those On Whom We Confer Benefits Than Those From Whom We Receive Them.

Avarice Is More Opposite To Economy Than Liberality.

If There Be A Love Pure And Free From The Admixture Of Our Other Passions, It Is That Which Lies Hidden In The Bottom Of Our Heart, And Which We Know Not Ourselves.

Confidence In Conversation Has A Greater Share Than Wit.

Praise Is A More Ingenious, Concealed, And Subtle Kind Of Flattery, That Satisfies Both The Giver And The Receiver, Though By Verydifferent Ways. The One Accepts It As A Reward Due To His Merit; The Other Gives It That He May Be Looked Upon As A Just And Discerning Person.