There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

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.

Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.

Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it.

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.

We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.

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