In Infants, Levity Is A Prettiness; In

We Seldom Praise Anyone In Good Earnest, Except Such As Admire Us.

Nothing Should Lessen Our Satisfaction With Ourselves As Much As When We Notice That We Disapprove Of Something At One Time That We Approve Of At Another Time.

Nothing Is So Catching As Example.

A True Friend Is The Most Precious Of All Possessions And The One We Take The Least Thought About Acquiring.

The Contempt Of Riches In Philosophers Was Only A Hidden Desire To Avenge Their Merit Upon The Injustice Of Fortune, By Despising The Very Goods Of Which Fortune Had Deprived Them; It Was A Secret To Guard Themselves Against The Degradation Of Poverty, It Was A Back Way By Which To Arrive At That Distinction Which They Could Not Gain By Riches.