Pride Is Generally Censured And

To Find Out Your Real Opinion Of Someone, Judge The Impression You Have When You First See A Letter From Them.

Education Perverts The Mind Since We Are Directly Opposing The Natural Development Of Our Mind By Obtaining Ideas First And Observations Last. This Is Why So Few Men Of Learning Have Such Sound Common Sense As Is Quite Common Among The Illiterate.

Our Life Is A Loan Received From Death With Sleep As The Daily Interest On This Loan.

Our First Ideas Of Life Are Generally Taken From Fiction Rather Than Fact.

(politeness Is) A Tacit Agreement That People's Miserable Defects, Whether Moral Or Intellectual, Shall On Either Side Be Ignored And Not Be Made The Subject Of Reproach.