The Virtue Of Paganism Was Strength: The

Few Persons Have Courage Enough To Appear As Good As They Really Are.

Since The Generality Of Persons Act From Impulse, Much More Than From Principle, Men Are Neither So Good Nor So Bad As We Are Apt To Think Them.

It Is With Flowers As With Moral Qualities; The Bright Are Sometimes Poisonous; But, I Believe, Never The Sweet.

Many Are Ambitious Of Saying Grand Things, That Is, Of Being Grandiloquent.

The Intellect Of The Wise Is Like Glass; It Admits The Light Of Heaven And Reflects It.