It Seems That Nature, Which

We Should Desire Very Few Things Passionately If We Did But Perfectly Know The Nature Of The Things We Desire.

However Much We May Distrust Men's Sincerity, We Always Believe They Speak To Us More Sincerely Than To Others.

One Of The Greatest And Also The Commonest Of Faults Is For Men To Believe That, Because They Never Hear Their Shortcomings Spoken Of, Or Read About Them In Cold Print, Others Can Have No Knowledge Of Them. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, The Reflections Of Lichtenberg We Are Often More Agreeable Through Our Faults Than Our Good Qualities.

The Rust Of Business Is Sometimes Polished Off In A Camp; But Never In A Court.

It Is Not Enough To Have Great Qualities; We Should Also Have The Management Of Them.