A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is obnoxious to us than the proof it carries with it of the general tenor and disposition of the mind from whence it sprung.

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

Vanity is the poison of agreeableness; yet as poison, when artfully and properly applied, has a salutary effect in medicine, so has vanity in the commerce and society of the world.

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

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.

True joy is only hope put out of fear.