Imagination Does Not Enable Us To Invent

The Tranquility Or Agitation Of Our Temper Does Not Depend So Much On The Big Things Which Happen To Us In Life, As On The Pleasant Or Unpleasant Arrangements Of The Little Things Which Happen Daily.

A Resolution Never To Deceive Exposes A Man To Be Often Deceived.

If You Cannot Find Peace In Yourself, It Is Useless To Look For It Elsewhere.

The Extreme Pleasure We Take In Speaking Of Ourselves Should Make Us Apprehensive That It Gives Hardly Any To Those Who Listen To Us.

As We Grow Older, We Increase In Folly--and In Wisdom.