There Are Follies As Catching As Contagious

Second-rate Minds Usually Condemn Everything Beyond Their Grasp.

We Often Make Use Of Envenomed Praise, That Reveals On The Rebound, As It Were, Defects In Those Praised Which We Dare Not Exposeany Other Way.

Clemency, Which We Make A Virtue Of, Proceeds Sometimes From Vanity, Sometimes From Indolence, Often From Fear, And Almost Always From A Mixture Of All Three.

Conceit Causes More Conversation Than Wit.

When Our Vices Desert Us, We Flatter Ourselves That We Are Deserting Our Vices.