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

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

True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.

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

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

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.

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?