True joy is only hope put out of fear.

Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone.

Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.

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

I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.

The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.

Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.