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

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

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.

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

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

True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.

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.