A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.

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

The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.

Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.

Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.

I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.