Perfect Valor Is To Do,

The World More Often Rewards The Appearances Of Merit Than Merit Itself.

Those Whom The World Has Delighted To Honor Have Oftener Been Influenced In Their Doings By Ambition And Vanity Than By Patriotism.

In Friendship As Well As Love, Ignorance Very Often Contributes More To Our Happiness Than Knowledge.

What Men Call Friendship Is No More Than A Partnership, A Mutual Care Of Interests, An Exchange Of Favors - In A Word, It Is A Sort Of Traffic, In Which Self-love Ever Proposes To Be The Gainer.

Old People Love To Give Good Advice; It Compensates Them For Their Inability To Set A Bad Example.