We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole.

True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

'Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

A disputant no more cares for the truth than the sportsman for the hare.

Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.