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.

We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.

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

Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it.

Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.

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

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.