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.

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.

No man ever reaches manhood till a woman's tenderness Is a part of his possession.

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

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.

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.