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.

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

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

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

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

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.

Though love and hatred are as opposites as fire and water, yet do they sometimes subsist in the breast together towards the same person; nay by their very opposition and desire to destroy each other, are they strengthened and increased.