We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.
Truth from the mouth of an honest man and severity from a good-natured man have a double effect.
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.
In what we really understand, we reason but little.
They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.