True joy is only hope put out of fear.

The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.

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.

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

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.

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.

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