We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

Tyrants forego all respect for humanity in proportion as they are sunk beneath it. Taught to believe themselves of a different species, they really become so, lose their participation with their kind, and in mimicking the god dwindle into the brute.

We are governed by sympathy; and the extent of our sympathy is determined by that of our sensibility

A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.