She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

Take here the grand secret; if not of pleasing all, yet of displeasing none, and court mediocrity, avoid originality, and sacrifice to fashion.

What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.

Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest Him.