Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

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

Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.

Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.