We are not satisfied to be right, unless we can prove others to be quite wrong.

It is hard for any one to be an honest politician who is not born and bred a Dissenter.

Humour is the making others act or talk absurdly and unconsciously; wit is the pointing out and ridiculing that absurdity consciously, and with more or less ill-nature.

Anyone is to be pitied who has just sense enough to perceive his deficiencies.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy teaches us caution on this subject.