Contempt is egotism in ill- humor.

He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.

Every human feeling is greater and larger than its exciting cause-a proof, I think, that man is designed for a higher state of existence.

Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.

Talk of the devil, and his horns appear.

What is one man's gain is another's loss.

The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.