Silence is one great art of conversation.
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
A lively blockhead in company is a public benefit. Silence or dulness by the side of folly looks like wisdom.
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.
Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it