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

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

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

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

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.

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.

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