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

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

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

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

I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless it be that so much more common one, of a contracted soul joined to an enlarged fortune.

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

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