Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage

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

Every character is in some respects uniform, and in others inconsistent; and it is only by the study both of the uniformity and inconsistency, and a comparison of them with each other, that the knowledge of man is acquired.

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.

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

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.