There Is Scarcely Any Man Sufficiently Clever

The Art Of Using Moderate Abilities To Advantage Often Brings Greater Results Than Actual Brilliance

The Intention Of Cheating No One Lays Us Open To Being Cheated Ourselves.

Pride Has A Greater Share Than Goodness In The Reproofs We Give Other People For Their Faults; And We Chide Them Not So Much To Make Them Mend Those Faults As To Make Them Believe That We Ourselves Are Without Fault.

Nothing Hinders A Thing From Being Natural So Much As The Straining Ourselves To Make It Seem So.

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