Distinction Is An Eminence That Is Attained

But For That Blindness Which Is Inseparable From Malice, What Terrible Powers Of Evil Would It Possess! Fortunately For The World, Its Venom, Like That Of The Rattlesnake, When Most Poisonous, Clouds The Eye Of The Reptile, And Defeats Its Aim.

Modesty Is Policy, No Less Than Virtue.

The Only True Source Of Politeness Is Consideration.

Not In Sorrow Freely Is Never To Open The Bosom To The Sweets Of The Sunshine.

The Apothegm Is The Most Portable Form Of Truth.... It Is Thus That The Proverb Answers Where The Sermon Fails, As A Well-charged Pistol Will Do More Execution Than A Whole Barrel Of Gunpowder Idly Expended In The Air.