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

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.

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?

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.