If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

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

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.

There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

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

If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.