You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

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.

How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on themselves!

You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.

Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.

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.