Whilst Weakness And Timidity Keep Us To

It Requires Greater Virtues To Support Good Fortune Than Bad.

Death, Like The Sun, Cannot Be Looked At Steadily.

Before We Set Our Hearts Too Much Upon Anything, Let Us Examine How Happy They Are, Who Already Possess It.

Satire Is At Once The Most Agreeable And Most Dangerous Of Mental Qualities. It Always Pleases When It Is Refined, But We Always Fear Those Who Use It Too Much; Yet Satire Should Be Allowed When Unmixed With Spite, And When The Person Satirized Can Join In The Satire.

We Do Not Like To Praise, And Seldom Praise Anyone Without Self-interest.