Nature Makes Merit, And Fortune Puts It

The Prospect Of Being Pleased Tomorrow Will Never Console Me For The Boredom Of Today.

If One Judges Love According To The Greatest Part Of The Effects It Produces, It Would Appear To Resemble Rather Hatred Than Kindness.

There Are Some Faults Which, When Well Managed, Make A Greater Figure Than Virtue Itself.

To Awaken A Man Who Is Deceived As To His Own Merit Is To Do Him As Bad A Turn As That Done To The Athenian Madman Who Was Happy In Believing That All The Ships Touching At The Port Belonged To Him.

We Should Gain More By Letting The World See What We Are Than By Trying To Seem What We Are Not.