A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

The sublime only paints the true, and that too in noble objects; it paints it in all its phases, its cause and its effect; it is the most worthy expression or image of this truth. Ordinary minds cannot find out the exact expression, and use synonymes.

Born merely for the purpose of digestion.

There is no employment in the world so laborious as that of making to one's self a great name; life ends before one has scarcely made the first rough draught of his work.