It Very Seldom Happens To A Man

It Is Not Easy To Surround Life With Any Circumstances In Which Youth Will Not Be Delightful.

Whatever Is Proposed, It Is Much Easier To Find Reasons For Rejecting Than Embracing.

Happiness Consists In The Multiplicity Of Agreeable Consciousness.

Among The Numerous Stratagems By Which Pride Endeavors To Recommend Folly To Regard, There Is Scarcely One That Meets With Less Success Than Affectation, Or A Perpetual Disguise Of The Real Character By Fictitious Appearances.

To Scatter Praise Or Blame Without Regard To Justice Is To Destroy The Distinction Of Good And Evil. Many Have No Other Test Of Actions Than General Opinion; And All Are So Far Influenced By A Sense Of Reputation That They Are Often Restrained By Fear Of Reproach, And Excited By Hope Of Honour, When Other Principles Have Lost Their Power.