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

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

A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.

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

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.

I hardly know so melancholy a reflection as that parents are necessarily the sole directors of the management of children, whether they have or have not judgment, penetration or taste to perform the task.

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