Self-love Is The Greatest Of All Flatterers.

Nothing Is So Contagious As Example; And We Never Do Any Great Good Or Evil Which Does Not Produce Its Like.

There Are Some Who Never Would Have Loved If They Never Had Heard It Spoken Of.

Self-interest Makes Some People Blind, And Others Sharp-sighted.

Some Weak People Are So Sensible Of Their Weakness As To Be Able To Make A Good Use Of It.

Of All Our Faults, The One We Avow Most Easily Is Idleness; We Persuade Ourselves That It Is Allied To All The Peaceable Virtues,and As For The Others, That It Does Not Destroy Them Utterly, But Only Suspends The Exercise Of Their Functions.