The Triumph Of Hope Over Experience.

The True Genius Is A Mind Of Large General Powers, Accidentally Determined To Some Particular Direction.

Friends Are Often Chosen For Similitude Of Manners, And Therefore Each Palliates The Other's Failings Because They Are His Own.

Patriotism Is The Last Refuge Of The Scoundrel.

Age Is Rarely Despised But When It Is, Contemptible.

...a Common Observation, That Few Are Mended By Imprisonment, And That He, Whose Crimes Have Made Confinement Necessary, Seldom Makes Any Other Use Of His Enlargement, Than To Do, With Greater Cunning, What He Did Before With Less.