Sobriety Is Concern For One's

Fortune Makes Our Virtues And Vices Visible, Just As Light Does The Objects Of Sight.

We May Say Of Agreeableness, As Distinct From Beauty, That It Consists In A Symmetry Of Which We Know Not The Rules, And A Secret Conformity Of The Features To Each Other, As Also To The Air And Complexion Of The Person.

Generosity Is The Vanity Of Giving.

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.

Everyone Praises His Heart, None Dare Praise Their Understanding.