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

If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.

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.

Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.

It has been said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they are more lasting than those of the body; but I do not remember to have heard it said that the beauties of the mind are valuable because they make those of the body more lasting.

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

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