Time's Chariot-wheels Make Their Carriage-road In The

Our Own Distrust Gives A Fair Pretence For The Knavery Of Other People.

Many People Despise Wealth, But Few Know How To Give It Away.

What We Call Generosity Is For The Most Part Only The Vanity Of Giving; And We Exercise It Because We Are More Fond Of That Vanity Than Of The Thing We Give.

What We Take For Virtue Is Often But An Assemblage Of Various Ambitions And Activities That Chance, Or Our Own Astuteness, Have Arranged In A Certain Manner; And It Is Not Always Out Of Courage Or Purity That Men Are Brave, And Women Chaste.

There Are Some Faults Which, When Well Managed, Make A Greater Figure Than Virtue Itself.