Necessity Moderates More Troubles Than Reason.

Men Sometimes Feel Injured By Praise Because It Assigns A Limit To Their Merit; Few People Are Modest Enough Not To Take Offense That One Appreciates Them.

Persons Of Rank Do Not Talk About Such Trifles As The Common People Do; But The Common People Do Not Busy Themselves About Such Frivolous Things As Do Persons Of Rank.

There Does Not Exist A Man Sufficiently Intelligent Never To Be Tiresome.

We Should Expect The Best And The Worst From Mankind As From The Weather.

We Are Less Hurt By The Contempt Of Fools Than By The Lukewarm Approval Of Men Of Intelligence.