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

The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it.

One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.

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.

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.

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