Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities.
Society is built upon trust.
The mind begins to boggle at unnatural substances as things paradoxical and incomprehensible.
He that tears away a man's good name tears his flesh from his bones, and, by letting him live, gives him only a cruel opportunity of feeling his misery, of burying his better part, and surviving himself.
Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.