Our Self-love Can Less Bear To Have

What Often Prevents Our Abandoning Ourselves To A Single Vice Is, Our Having More Than One.

It Often Happens That Things Come Into The Mind In A More Finished Form Than Could Have Been Achieved After Much Study.

We Often Select Envenomed Praise Which, By A Reaction Upon Those We Praise, Shows Faults We Could Not Have Shown By Other Means.

The Constancy Of The Wise Is Only The Talent Of Concealing The Agitation Of Their Hearts.

Some People Are So Extremely Whiffling And Inconsiderable That They Are As Far From Any Real Faults As From Substantial Virtues.