A Great Many Men's Gratitude Is Nothing

The Desire To Seem Clever Often Keeps Us From Being So.

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.

Our Minds Are Lazier Than Our Bodies.

The Thing That Makes Our Friendships So Short And Changeable Is That The Qualities And Dispositions Of The Soul Are Very Hard To Know, And Those Of The Understanding And Wit Very Easy.

It Is Often Laziness And Timidity That Keep Us Within Our Duty While Virtue Gets All The Credit.