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

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

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.

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