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.

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

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

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

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

Out of mind as soon as out of sight.

Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it.