Most Men Know What They Hate, Few

Few Things Are More Agreeable To Self-love Than Revenge, And Yet No Cause So Effectually Restrains Us From Revenge As Self-love. And This Paradox Naturally Suggests Another; That The Strength Of The Community Is Not Unfrequently Built Upon The Weakness Of Those Individuals That Compose It.

Slight Sorrow For Sin Is Sufficient, Provided It At The Same Time Produces Amendment.

There Is Nothing More Imprudent Than Excessive Prudence.

Subtract From Many Modern Poets All That May Be Found In Shakespeare, And Trash Will Remain.

Duke Chartres Used To Boast That No Man Could Have Less Real Value For Character Than Himself, Yet He Would Gladly Give Twenty Thousand Pounds For A Good One, Because He Could Immediately Make Double That Sum By Means Of It.