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

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

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

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.

Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

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

Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.