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.

The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.

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.

Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.

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.

Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

If they who understand the utmost refinement of any art will enjoy the perfection of it in a manner superior to other men, will they not amply pay for that advantage in feeling more than other men the imperfection of it, which in the natural course of things must so much oftener fall in their way?