No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on themselves!

There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.

You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.

Have you never seen a strange unconnected deformed representation of a figure, which seen in another point of view, became proportioned and agreeable? It is the picture of man.

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.