Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.

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

Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.

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

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

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 brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.