Virtue Would Not Make Such Advances If

Most People Know No Other Way Of Judging Men's Worth But By The Vogue They Are In, Or The Fortunes They Have Met With.

Only The Great Can Afford To Have Great Defects.

The Greatest Of All Gifts Is The Power To Estimate Things At Their True Worth

Few Are Sufficiently Wise To Prefer Censure Which Is Useful To Praise Which Is Treacherous.

There Is A Kind Of Elevation Which Does Not Depend On Fortune; It Is A Certain Air Which Distinguishes Us, And Seems To Destine Us For Great Things; It Is A Price Which We Imperceptibly Set Upon Ourselves.