To Think To Be Wise Alone Is

There Are Follies As Catching As Contagious Disorders.

As We Grow Older, We Increase In Folly--and In Wisdom.

In Misfortune We Often Mistake Dejection For Constancy; We Bear It Without Daring To Look On It; Like Cowards, Who Suffer Themselves To Be Murdered Without Resistance.

Virtues Lose Themselves In Self-interest, As Rivers In The Sea.

Hypocrisy Is An Homage That Vice Renders To Virtue.