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

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.

Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it.

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

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

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

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