Motives Are Causes Experienced From Within.

Honor Means That A Man Is Not Exceptional; Fame, That He Is.

It Is Only The Hope Of What Is Claimed That Begets And Nurishes The Wish.

The Tallest Oak Tree Once Was An Acorn That Any Pig Could Have Swallowed.

There Is No Vice Of Which A Man Can Be Guilty, No Meanness, No Shabbiness, No Unkindness, Which Excites So Much Indignation Among His Contemporaries, Friends And Neighbours, As His Success. This Is The One Unpardonable Crime, Which Reason Cannot Defend, Nor Humility Mitigate.

The Shortness Of Life, So Often Lamented, May Be The Best Thing About It.