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.

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

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.

Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.

We laugh heartily to see a whole flock of sheep jump because one did so. Might not one imagine that superior beings do the same, and for exactly the same reason?

The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.