People Are Often Vain Of Their Passions,

We Can Never Be Certain Of Our Courage Until We Have Faced Danger.

Some Counterfeits Reproduce So Very Well The Truth That It Would Be A Flaw Of Judgment Not To Be Deceived By Them.

The Mark Of Extraordinary Merit Is To See Those Most Envious Of It Constrained To Praise.

We Sometimes Condemn The Present, By Praising The Past; And Show Our Contempt Of What Is Now, By Our Esteem For What Is No More.

Nature Seems At Each Man's Birth To Have Marked Out The Bounds Of His Virtues And Vices, And To Have Determined How Good Or How Wicked That Man Shall Be Capable Of Being.