Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.

The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.

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

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.

Out of mind as soon as out of sight.

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