Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.

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

Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it.

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life.

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.