We Should Gain More By Letting The

Pride Has A Greater Share Than Goodness In The Reproofs We Give Other People For Their Faults; And We Chide Them Not So Much To Make Them Mend Those Faults As To Make Them Believe That We Ourselves Are Without Fault.

The Rust Of Business Is Sometimes Polished Off In A Camp; But Never In A Court.

No One Thinks Fortune So Blind As Those She Has Been Least Kind To.

We Had Better Appear What We Are, Than Affect To Appear What We Are Not.

Everyone Agrees That A Secret Should Be Kept Intact, But Everyone Does Not Agree As To The Nature And Importance Of Secrecy. Too Often We Consult Ourselves As To What We Should Say, What We Should Leave Unsaid. There Are Few Permanent Secrets, And The Scruple Against Revealing Them Will Not Last Forever.