We Endeavor To Make A Virtue Of

The Largest Ambition Has The Least Appearance Of Ambition When It Meets With An Absolute Impossibility In Compassing Its Object.

The Passions Often Engender Their Contraries.

Tricks And Treachery Are Merely Proofs Of Lack Of Skill.

Gratitude Is Merely The Secret Hope Of Further Favors.

The Generality Of Friends Puts Us Out Of Conceit With Friendship; Just As The Generality Of Religious People Puts Us Out Of Conceit With Religion.