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.

Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.

True joy is only hope put out of fear.

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

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

Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.

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