Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
Nothing is so great an instance of ill-manners as flattery.
For want of a block, man will stumble at a straw.
We have an intuitive sense of our duty.