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

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

We laugh heartily to see a whole flock of sheep jump because one did so. Might not one imagine that superior beings do the same, and for exactly the same reason?

I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless it be that so much more common one, of a contracted soul joined to an enlarged fortune.

Out of mind as soon as out of sight.

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

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