We Easily Forgive Our Friends Those Faults

We Are Inconsolable At Being Deceived By Our Enemies And Being Betrayed By Our Friends, Yet We Are Often Content In Be Being Treated Like That By Our Own Selves.

The Mark Of Extraordinary Merit Is To See Those Most Envious Of It Constrained To Praise.

Youth Changes Its Tastes By The Warmth Of Its Blood; Age Retains Its Tastes By Habit.

The World More Often Rewards The Appearances Of Merit Than Merit Itself.

It Is Most Difficult To Speak When We Are Ashamed Of Being Silent.