The Only Thing That Is

As Charms Are Nonsense, Nonsense Is A Charm.

Our Whole Life Is But A Greater And Longer Childhood.

Great Spenders Are Bad Lenders.

Ambition Has Its Disappointments To Sour Us, But Never The Good Fortune To Satisfy Us. Its Appetite Grows Keener By Indulgence And All We Can Gratify It With At Present Serves But The More To Inflame Its Insatiable Desires.

It Seems To Me, That If Statesmen Had A Little More Arithmetic, Or Were Accustomed To Calculation, Wars Would Be Much Less Frequent.