Fortune, To Show Us Her Power In

Nature Clasps All Her Creatures In A Universal Embrace; There Is Not One Of Them Which She Has Not Plainly Furnished With All Means Necessary To The Conservation Of Its Being.

Friendship Is The Highest Degree Of Perfection In Society.

No-one Is Exempt From Speaking Nonsense – The Only Misfortune Is To Do It Solemnly.

Behold The Hands, How They Promise, Conjure, Appeal, Menace, Pray, Supplicate, Refuse, Beckon, Interrogate, Admire, Confess, Cringe, Instruct, Command, Mock And What Not Besides, With A Variation And Multiplication Of Variation Which Makes The Tongue Envious.

Fame And Tranquility Can Never Be Bedfellows.