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

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.

Out of mind as soon as out of sight.

Weak men often from the very principle of their weakness derive a certain susceptibility; delicacy and taste which render them, in those particulars, much superior to men of stronger and more consistent minds, who laugh at them.

The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.

I hardly know so melancholy a reflection as that parents are necessarily the sole directors of the management of children, whether they have or have not judgment, penetration or taste to perform the task.

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