Few maxims are true in every respect.
The character of false wit is that of appearing to depend only upon reason.
Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.
We are dismayed when we find that even disaster cannot cure us of our faults.
It is proof of a narrow mind when things worthy of esteem are distinguished from things worthy of love. Great minds naturally love whatever is worthy of their esteem.
Great men are sometimes so even in small things.