We Often Act Treacherously More From Weakness

Those Who Have The Most Cunning Affect All Their Lives To Condemn Cunning; That They May Make Use Of It On Some Great Occasion, And To Some Great End.

Clemency, Which We Make A Virtue Of, Proceeds Sometimes From Vanity, Sometimes From Indolence, Often From Fear, And Almost Always From A Mixture Of All Three.

Many Young Persons Believe Themselves Natural When They Are Only Impolite And Coarse.

A Well-trained Mind Has Less Difficulty In Submitting To Than In Guiding An Ill-trained Mind.

He Who Refuses Praise The First Time That It Is Offered Does So Because He Would Hear It A Second Time.