To Be Wiser Than Other

We Often Choose A Friend As We Do A Mistress - For No Particular Excellence In Themselves, But Merely From Some Circumstance That Flatters Our Self-love.

He Who Would See Old Hoghton Right Must View It By The Pale Moonlight.

Reflection Makes Men Cowards.

No Man Can Thoroughly Master More Than One Art Or Science.

A Hypocrite Despises Those Whom He Deceives, But Has No Respect For Himself. He Would Make A Dupe Of Himself Too, If He Could.