Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

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

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?

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.

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

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

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.