We Frequently Do Good In Order To

The Most Brilliant Fortunes Are Often Not Worth The Littleness Required To Gain Them.

Absence Abates A Moderate Passion And Intensifies A Great One - As The Wind Blows Out A Candle But Fans Fire Into Flame.

There Are Few People Who Are More Often In The Wrong Than Those Who Cannot Endure To Be So.

What Renders Us So Changeable In Our Friendship Is, That It Is Difficult To Know The Qualities Of The Soul, But Easy To Know Those Of The Mind.

No Man Deserves To Be Praised For His Goodness, Who Has It Not In His Power To Be Wicked. Goodness Without That Power Is Generally Nothing More Than Sloth, Or An Impotence Of Will.