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

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.

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.

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

Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.

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.