Flattery Is A Kind Of Bad Money,

We Seldom Find People Ungrateful So Long As It Is Thought We Can Serve Them.

Love Often Leads On To Ambition, But Seldom Does One Return From Ambition To Love.

If We Had No Faults, We Would Not Derive So Much Pleasure From Noting Those Of Other People.

The Rust Of Business Is Sometimes Polished Off In A Camp; But Never In A Court.

Everyone Agrees That A Secret Should Be Kept Intact, But Everyone Does Not Agree As To The Nature And Importance Of Secrecy. Too Often We Consult Ourselves As To What We Should Say, What We Should Leave Unsaid. There Are Few Permanent Secrets, And The Scruple Against Revealing Them Will Not Last Forever.