Avarice Is More Directly Opposed To Thrift

Sincerity Is A Certain Openness Of Heart. It Is To Be Found In Very Few, And What We Commonly Look Upon To Be So Is Only A Cunningsort Of Dissimulation, To Insinuate Ourselves Into The Confidence Of Others.

Some Disguised Deceits Counterfeit Truth So Perfectly That Not To Be Taken In By Them Would Be An Error Of Judgment.

Fancy Sets The Value On The Gifts Of Fortune.

We Often Are Consoled By Our Want Of Reason For Misfortunes That Reason Could Not Have Comforted.

There Is A Sort Of Love Whose Very Excessiveness Prevents The Lover's Being Jealous.