To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.