No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

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.

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

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.

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.

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?