Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.

We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.

Silence augmenteth grief, writing increaseth rage

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

It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequate to the variety of ideas which are conceived by different minds, and which, could they be expressed, would produce a new variety of characteristic differences between man and man.

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!