To Do Nothing Is In Everyone's Power.

To Mean Understandings, It Is Sufficient Honour To Be Numbered Amongst The Lowest Labourers Of Learning; But Different Abilities Must Find Different Tasks. To Hew Stone, Would Have Been Unworthy Of Palladio; And To Have Rambled In Search Of Shells And Flowers, Had But Ill Suited With The Capacity Of Newton.

The Wise Man Applauds He Who He Thinks Most Virtuous; The Rest Of The World Applauds The Wealthy.

All Censure Of A Man's Self Is Oblique Praise. It Is In Order To Show How Much He Can Spare.

You Never Find People Laboring To Convince You That You May Live Very Happily Upon A Plentiful Income.

All Imposture Weakens Confidence And Chills Benevolence.