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• A good word is an easy obligation, but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
  -- Tillotso...
• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
  -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld...
• Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.
  -- Dr. I. Wa...
• What's good enough for our ancestors is good enough for us.
• Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are. John Dyke
• Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man Commands all light, all influence, all fate.
  Nothing to him falls early, or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still....
• How it is that our memory is able to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
  -- Duc de La Rochefoucauld...
• Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
  -- Alexander Pope...