The beloved Lady is a woman of a sensible mind; but she has confessed to me, that after all her true and solid value for Constant, she had much more concern for the loss of Careless. Those great and serious spirits have something equal to the adversities they meet with, and consequently lessen the objects of pity. Great accidents seem not cut out so much for men of familiar characters, which makes them more easily pitied, and soon after beloved. Add to this, that the sort of love which generally succeeds, is a stranger to awe and distance. I asked Romana, whether of the two she should have chosen had they survived? She said, She knew she ought to have taken Constant; but believed, she should have chosen Careless.
ARABIAN MAXIMS.
The monument which a wise man is ambitious to leave behind him, is not a numerous posterity, but the lasting honours of a virtuous fame.
In learning to know yourself, you learn to know God.
Do good; and your reward shall be, if not the plaudits of men, the approbation of God.
It is lost labour to endeavour to give understanding to him that has none; especially, if he thinks himself more sensible than you.
Nobility does not consist in magnificence of dress or eminence of rank. Art thou virtuous? Thou art sufficiently noble.
The life of man is a journal: good actions only should be written in it.
He who sows duplicity will reap calamity.