Ridicule Is The Best Test Of Truth.

Second-rate Knowledge, And Middling Talents, Carry A Man Farther At Courts, And In The Busy Part Of The World, Than Superior Knowledge And Shining Parts.

No Man Can Possibly Improve In Any Company For Which He Has Not Respect Enough To Be Under Some Degree Of Restraint.

Give Nobly To Indigent Merit, And Do Not Refuse Your Charity Even To Those Who Have Not Merit But Their Misery.

To Please People Is A Great Step Towards Persuading Them.

The Permanency Of Most Friendships Depends Upon The Continuity Of Good Fortune.