Earnestness Is The Devotion Of

Poverty Is Only Contemptible When It Is Felt To Be So. Doubtless The Best Way To Make Our Poverty Respectable Is To Seem Never To Feel It As An Evil.

We Absolve A Friend From Gratitude When We Remind Him Of A Favor.

Ambitious Princes Value Inherited Kingdoms Not So Much As Conquered Provinces.

It Is Our Relation To Circumstances That Determines Their Influence Upon Us.

Motives Are Better Than Actions. Men Drift Into Crime. Of Evil They Do More Than They Contemplate, And Of Good They Contemplate More Than They Do.