Were We Perfectly Acquainted With The Object,

Our Desires Always Disappoint Us; For Though We Meet With Something That Gives Us Satisfaction, Yet It Never Thoroughly Answers Our Expectation. [however Disappointment Can Always Be Removed If We Remember It Could Have Turned Out Worse.]

Men Are Often So Foolish As To Boast And Value Themselves Upon Their Passions, Even Those That Are Most Vicious. But Envy Is A Passion So Full Of Cowardice And Shame That No One Every Ever Had The Confidence To Own It.

He Who Refuses Praise The First Time That It Is Offered Does So Because He Would Hear It A Second Time.

Hope Is The Last Thing That Dies In Man.

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