If It Were Not For The Government,

One Must Not Hope To Be More Than One Can Be.

It Is Children Only Who Enjoy The Present; Their Elders Either Live On The Memory Of The Past Or The Hope Of The Future.

Most Of Those Who Make Collections Of Verse Or Epigram Are Like Men Eating Cherries Or Oysters: They Choose Out The Best At First, And End By Eating All.

It Is Among Uneducated Women That We May Look For The Most Confirmed Gossips. Goethe Tells Us There Is Nothing More Frightful Than Bustling Ignorance.

There Is A Melancholy That Stems From Greatness