Those Who Occupy Their Minds With Small

Propriety Is The Least Of All Laws, And The Most Observed.

There Is Merit Without Rank, But There Is No Rank Without Some Merit.

We Are Never So Generous As When Giving Advice.

Humility Is Often Only A Feigned Submissiveness By Which Men Hope To Bring Other People To Submit To Them; It Is A More Calculated Sort Of Pride.

L'absence Diminue Les Mediocres Passions, Et Augmente Les Grandes,comme Le Vent Eteint Les Bougies, Et Allume Le Feu. Absence Diminishes Commonplace Passions, And Increases Great Ones, As Wind Extinguishes Candles And Kindles Fire.