Taste consists in the power of judging; genius in the power of executing.
Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.
It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.
Only mediocrity of enjoyment is allowed to man.
To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.
Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.