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?

We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage--always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.

Men and statues that are admired ire an elevated situation have a very different effect upon us when we approach them; the first appear less than we imagined them, the last bigger.

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

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

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