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

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.

The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular.