If A Person Has No Delicacy, He

Our Notions With Respect To The Importance Of Life, And Our Attachment To It, Depend On A Principle Which Has Very Little To Do With Its Happiness Or Its Misery. The Love Of Life Is, In General, The Effect Not Of Our Enjoyments, But Of Our Passions.

Our Repugnance To Death Increases In Proportion To Our Consciousness Of Having Lived In Vain.

The Assumption Of Merit Is Easier, Less Embarrassing, And More Effectual Than The Actual Attainment Of It.

A Man Who Is Determined Never To Move Out Of The Beaten Road Cannot Lose His Way.

Wit Is The Rarest Quality To Be Met With Among People Of Education, And The Most Common Among The Uneducated.