The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.

The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness; the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.

Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.

The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

We meet With few utterly dull and stupid souls: the sublime and transcendent are still fewer; the generality of mankind stand between these two extremes: the interval is filled with multitudes of ordinary geniuses, but all very useful, and the ornaments and supports of the commonwealth.

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.

It is because of men that women dislike one another.