The Wise Person Often Shuns

To Bewail The Loss Of A Person We Love Is A Happiness Compared With The Necessity Of Living With One We Hate.

Children Have Neither Past Nor Future; They Enjoy The Present, Which Very Few Of Us Do.

A Man Often Runs The Risk Of Throwing Away A Witticism If He Admits That It Is His Own.

We Should Only Endeavour To Think And Speak Correctly Ourselves, Without Wishing To Bring Others Over To Our Taste And Opinions.

The Great Charm Of Conversation Consists Less In The Display Of One's Own Wit And Intelligence Than In The Power To Draw Forth The Resources Of Others.