Man Makes Up His Mind He Will

Courtly Manners Are Contagious; They Are Caught At Versailles.

Outward Simplicity Befits Ordinary Men, Like A Garment Made To Measure For Them; But It Serves As An Adornment To Those Who Have Filled Their Lives With Great Deeds: They Might Be Compared To Some Beauty Carelessly Dressed And Thereby All The More Attractive.

To Endeavor To Forget Anyone Is A Certain Way Of Thinking Of Nothing Else.

We Meet With Few Utterly Dull And Stupid Souls: The Sublime And Transcendent Are Still Fewer; The Generality Of Mankind Stand Between These Two Extremes: The Interval Is Filled With Multitudes Of Ordinary Geniuses, But All Very Useful, And The Ornaments And Supports Of The Commonwealth.

Widows, Like Ripe Fruit, Drop Easily From Their Perch.