Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of a larger meaning; he that thinks with more subtilty will seek for terms of more nice discrimination; and where is the wonder, since words are but the images of things, that he who never knew the original should not know the copies?

What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.

Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.

There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.

Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

All envy would be extinguished, if it were universally known that there are none to be envied.