"It is given to few persons to..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“We like to read others but we do not like to be read.”

“To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.”

“Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.”

“The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love.”

“Listen up, because I've got nothing to say and I'm only gonna to say it once.”

“To my way of thinking, the American family started to decline when parents began to communicate with their children.”

“Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .• • • • . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred.”

“Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great minds, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same natural ignorance from which they set out; this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself.”

“Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.”