What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.

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

Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life.

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

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.