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

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.

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

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

Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

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

Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life.