Ambitious Princes Value Inherited Kingdoms

There Are None So Low But They Have Their Triumphs. Small Successes Suffice For Small Souls.

Marriage, By Making Us More Contented, Causes Us Often To Be Less Enterprising.

Melancholy Sees The Worst Of Things...[rather Than The Best]

No Single Character Is Ever So Great That A Nation Can Afford To Form Itself Upon It. Imitation Belittles. This Appears In The Instance Of The Chinese. The Chinese Are So Many Confucii; In Miniature. And So With The Jews. Moses, The Lawgiver, Is Poorly Represented By Moses, The Old Clothesman ; Or Even By Dives, The Hanker.

Genius Makes Its Observations In Short-hand; Talent Writes Them Out At Length.