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.

Out of mind as soon as out of sight.

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

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

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

I hardly know so melancholy a reflection as that parents are necessarily the sole directors of the management of children, whether they have or have not judgment, penetration or taste to perform the task.

I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.