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

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

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.

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.

The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.

It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequate to the variety of ideas which are conceived by different minds, and which, could they be expressed, would produce a new variety of characteristic differences between man and man.