Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.

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

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

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

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

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.

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