Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.

I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

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.

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

A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is obnoxious to us than the proof it carries with it of the general tenor and disposition of the mind from whence it sprung.