Every Period Of Life Is Obliged To

An Infallible Characteristic Of Meanness Is Cruelty.

Every Other Author May Aspire To Praise; The Lexicographer Can Only Hope To Escape Reproach.

All History Was At First Oral.

Cunning Has Effect From The Credulity Of Others, Rather Than From The Abilities Of Those Who Are Cunning. It Requires No Extraordinary Talents To Lie And Deceive.

I Do Not Much Wish Well To Discoveries, For I Am Always Afraid They Will End In Conquest And Robbery.