how impossible it is not to laugh in some company, or to laugh in others.

How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.

Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.

why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.