This Man [chesterfield], I Thought, Had Been

A Book Should Teach Us To Enjoy Life, Or To Endure It.

Advice Is Offensive, It Shows Us That We Are Known To Others As Well As To Ourselves.

Cunning Differs From Wisdom As Twilight From Open Day.

Accustom Your Children Constantly To This; If A Thing Happened At One Window And They, When Relating It, Say That It Happened At Another, Do Not Let It Pass, But Instantly Check Them; You Do Not Know Where Deviation From Truth Will End

Diffidence May Check Resolution And Obstruct Performance, But Compensates Its Embarrassments By More Important Advantages; It Conciliates The Proud, And Softens The Severe; Averts Envy From Excellence, And Censure From Miscarriage.