Credulity Forges More Miracles Than Trickery Could

Success Serves Men As A Pedestal. It Makes Them Seem Greater When Not Measured By Reflection.

The True Character Of Epistolary Style Is Playfulness And Urbanity.

There Are People Who Are Virtuous Only In A Piece-meal Way; Virtue Is A Fabric From Which They Never Make Themselves A Whole Garment.

Misery Is Almost Always The Result Of Thinking.

Old Age Deprives The Intelligent Man Only Of Qualities Useless To Wisdom.