I am always afraid of a fool. One cannot be sure that he is not a knave as well.

I have known persons without a friend--never any one without some virtue. The virtues of the former conspired with their vices to make the whole world their enemies.

It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.

Taste is nothing but an enlarged capacity for receiving pleasure from works of imagination.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.