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

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.

Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage

How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on themselves!

It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.

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

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