Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You must also know when to deviate from them, and where lies the exception.

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.

We laugh heartily to see a whole flock of sheep jump because one did so. Might not one imagine that superior beings do the same, and for exactly the same reason?

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.