[science Is] The Desire To Know Causes.

There Is No Flattery So Adroit Or Effectual As That Of Implicit Assent.

People Addicted To Secrecy Are So Without Knowing Why; They Are Not So For Cause, But For Secrecy's Sake.

They Are, As It Were, Train-bearers In The Pageant Of Life, And Hold A Glass Up To Humanity, Frailer Than Itself. We See Ourselves At Second-hand In Them: They Show Us All That We Are, All That We Wish To Be, And All That We Dread To Be. What Brings The Resemblance Nearer Is, That, As They Imitate Us, We, In Our Turn, Imitate Them. There Is No Class Of Society Whom So Many Persons Regard With Affection As Actors.

Our Friends Are Generally Ready To Do Everything For Us, Except The Very Thing We Wish Them To Do.

A Grave Blockhead Should Always Go About With A Lively One - They Show One Another Off To The Best Advantage.