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

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.

Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage

The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it.

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.

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

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