Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.

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

There is scarce any passion so heartily decried by moralists and satirists, as AMBITION; and yet, methinks, ambition is not a vice but in a vicious mind: in a virtuous mind it is a virtue, and will be found to take its color from the character in which it is mixed. Ambition is a desire of superiority; and a man may become superior, either by making others less or himself greater.

Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage

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.

If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?