What Is Perfectly True Is Perfectly Witty.

It Is Not Enough To Have Great Qualities; We Should Also Have The Management Of Them.

The Virtues And Vices Are All Put In Motion By Interest.

Too Great Haste To Repay An Obligation Is A Kind Of Ingratitude.

All The Passions Are Nothing Else Than Different Degrees Of Heat And Cold Of The Blood.

We Often See Malefactors, When They Are Led To Execution, Put On Resolution And A Contempt Of Death Which, In Truth, Is Nothing Else But Fearing To Look It In The Face--so That This Pretended Bravery May Very Truly Be Said To Do The Same Good Office To Their Mind That The Blindfold Does To Their Eyes.