Some Good Qualities Are Like The Senses:

Men May Boast Of Their Great Actions; But They Are More Often The Effects Of Chance Than Of Design.

The Caprice Of Our Temper Is Even More Whimsical Than That Of Fortune.

Self-love, As It Happens To Be Well Or Ill Conducted, Constitutes Virtue And Vice.

Without Humility, We Keep All Our Defects; And They Are Only Crusted Over By Pride, Which Conceals Them From Others, And Often From Ourselves.

He That Fancies Such A Sufficiency In Himself That He Can Live Without All The World Is Greatly Mistaken; But He That Imagines Himself So Necessary That Other People Cannot Live Without Him Is A Great Deal More Mistaken.