The Counsels Of The Old, Like The

Commerce Is The School Of Cheating.

Most People Grow Old Within A Small Circle Of Ideas, Which They Have Not Discovered For Themselves. There Are Perhaps Less Wrong-minded People Than Thoughtless.

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

Our Failings Sometimes Bind Us To One Another As Closely As Could Virtue Itself.

The Maxim That Men Are Not To Be Praised Before Their Death Was Invented By Envy And Too Lightly Adopted By Philosophers. I, On The Contrary, Maintain That They Ought To Be Praised In Their Lifetime If They Merit It; But Jealousy And Calumny, Roused Against Their Virtue Or Their Talent, Labour To Degrade Them If Any One Ventures To Bear Testimony To Them. It Is Unjust Criticism That They Should Fear To Hazard, Not Sincere Praise.