The Sure Way To Be

Good Advice Is Something A Man Gives When He Is Too Old To Set A Bad Example.

The Mark Of Extraordinary Merit Is To See Those Most Envious Of It Constrained To Praise.

Nature Seems At Each Man's Birth To Have Marked Out The Bounds Of His Virtues And Vices, And To Have Determined How Good Or How Wicked That Man Shall Be Capable Of Being.

The Thing That Makes Our Friendships So Short And Changeable Is That The Qualities And Dispositions Of The Soul Are Very Hard To Know, And Those Of The Understanding And Wit Very Easy.

Every One Speaks Well Of His Own Heart, But No One Dares Speak Well Of His Own Mind.