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.

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.

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

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

No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

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.

Men often prove the violence of their own prejudices, even by the violence with which they attack the prejudices of other people.