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

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

O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.

Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.

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.

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

One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.