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.

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!

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

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

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.

You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.

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