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 brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.
Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone.
A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.
Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.
True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.