However We May Conceal Our Passions Under

There Are Few People Who Are More Often In The Wrong Than Those Who Cannot Endure To Be So.

Our Virtues Are Often, In Reality, No Better Than Vices Disguised.

To Awaken A Man Who Is Deceived As To His Own Merit Is To Do Him As Bad A Turn As That Done To The Athenian Madman Who Was Happy In Believing That All The Ships Touching At The Port Belonged To Him.

The Sure Way To Be Cheated Is To Think One's Self More Cunning Than Others.

Hope Is The Last Thing That Dies In Man; And Though It Be Exceedingly Deceitful, Yet It Is Of This Good Use To Us, That While We Are Traveling Through Life It Conducts Us In An Easier And More Pleasant Way To Our Journey's End.