What Makes Vanity So Insufferable To Us,

The Only Good Imitations Are Those That Poke Fun At Bad Originals.

It Is A Mistake To Imagine, That The Violent Passions Only, Such As Ambition And Love, Can Triumph Over The Rest. Idleness, Languid As It Is, Often Masters Them All; She Influences All Our Designs And Actions, And Insensibly Consumes And Destroys Both Passions And Virtues.

Our Actions Are Like The Terminations Of Verses, Which We Rhyme As We Please.

We Had Better Appear What We Are, Than Affect To Appear What We Are Not.

True Bravery Means Doing Alone That Which One Could Do If All The World Were By.