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

The talent of turning men into ridicule, and exposing to laughter those one converses with, is the qualification of little ungenerous tempers.

Blesses his stars and thinks it luxury.

Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

That fine part of our construction, the eye, seems as much the receptacle and seat of our passions as the mind itself; and at least it is the outward portal to introduce them to the house within, or rather the common thoroughfare to let our affections pass in and out.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.