There Is No Better Proof

People Are More Slanderous From Vanity Than From Malice.

The Defects And Faults Of The Mind Are Like Wounds In The Body; After All Imaginable Care Has Been Taken To Heal Them Up, Still There Will Be A Scar Left Behind, And They Are In Continual Danger Of Breaking The Skin And Bursting Out Again.

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

Though Most Of The Friendships Of The World Ill Deserve The Name Of Friendships; Yet A Man May Make Use Of Them On Occasion, As Of A Traffic Whose Returns Are Uncertain, And In Which 'tis Usual To Be Cheated.

If We Have Not Peace Within Ourselves, It Is In Vain To Seek It From Outward Sources.