We Would Rather Speak Ill Of Ourselves

As It Is The Mark Of Great Minds To Say Many Things In A Few Words, So It Is That Of Little Minds To Use Many Words To Say Nothing.

It Is As Commendable To Think Well Of Oneself When Alone, As It Is Ridiculous To Speak Well Of Oneself Among Others.

Why Is It That Our Memory Is Good Enough To Retain The Least Triviality That Happens To Us, And Yet Not Good Enough To Recollect How Often We Have Told It To The Same Person?

The Common Foible Of Women Who Have Been Handsome Is To Forget That They Are No Longer So.

The Violence Done Us By Others Is Often Less Painful Than That Which We Do To Ourselves.