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

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

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.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.

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

Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone.