Sometimes There Are Accidents In Our Lives

Idleness And Constancy Fix The Mind To What It Finds Easy And Agreeable. This Habit Always Confines And Cramps Up Our Knowledge; And No One Has Ever Taken The Trouble To Stretch And Carry His Understanding As Far As It Could Go.

However Rare True Love May Be, It Is Less So Than True Friendship.

There Are Reproaches Which Praise, And Praises Which Defame.

We Sometimes Imagine We Hate Flattery, But We Only Hate The Way We Are Flattered.

In Infants, Levity Is A Prettiness; In Men A Shameful Defect; But In Old Age, A Monstrous Folly.