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.

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

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

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

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.

Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.

We laugh heartily to see a whole flock of sheep jump because one did so. Might not one imagine that superior beings do the same, and for exactly the same reason?