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

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

Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone.

Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.

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

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.

Weak men often from the very principle of their weakness derive a certain susceptibility; delicacy and taste which render them, in those particulars, much superior to men of stronger and more consistent minds, who laugh at them.