Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.

O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.

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

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

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.

It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.