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

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

Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life.

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

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.

True joy is only hope put out of fear.

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