The Passions Often Engender Their Contraries.

Whatever Ignominy Or Disgrace We Have Incurred, It Is Almost Always In Our Power To Reestablish Our Reputation.

Though Nature Be Ever So Generous, Yet Can She Not Make A Hero Alone. Fortune Must Contribute Her Part Too; And Till Both Concur, The Work Cannot Be Perfected.

There Are Bad People Who Would Be Less Dangerous If They Were Quite Devoid Of Goodness.

It Is Harder To Hide The Feelings We Have Than To Feign The Ones We Do Not Have.

As Great Minds Have The Faculty Of Saying A Great Deal In A Few Words, So Lesser Minds Have A Talent Of Talking Much, And Saying Nothing.