Those Who Have No Power

To Paint Things As They Are Requires A Minute Attention, And Employs The Memory Rather Than The Fancy.

Friendship Is Not Always The Sequel Of Obligation.

Mutual Complacency Is The Atmosphere Of Conjugal Love.

Those Authors Are To Be Read At Schools That Supply Most Axioms Of Prudence.

It Is Certain That Success Naturally Confirms In Us A Favourable Opinion Of Our Own Abilities. Scarce Any Man Is Willing To Allot To Accident, Friendship, And A Thousand Causes, Which Concur In Every Event Without Human Contrivance Or Interposition, The Part Which They May Justly Claim In His Advancement. We Rate Ourselves By Our Fortune Rather Than Our Virtues, And Exorbitant Claims Are Quickly Produced By Imaginary Merit.