As One Grows Older, One Becomes Wiser

The Desire Which Urges Us To Deserve Praise Strengthens Our Good Qualities, And Praise Given To Wit, Valour, And Beauty, Tends To Increase Them.

A Man Cannot Please Long Who Has Only One Kind Of Wit.

Men And Things Have Each Their Proper Perspective; To Judge Rightly Of Some It Is Necessary To See Them Near, Of Others We Can Never Judge Rightly But At A Distance.

Nature Makes Merit, And Fortune Puts It To Work.

Politeness Of The Mind Is To Have Delicate Thoughts