Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.
Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body. 
Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.
As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.
He whom God chooseth, out of doubt doth well:What they that choose their God do, who can tell?
A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil. 
A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others. 
To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better. 
Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter. 
Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone. 
We should do by our cunning as we do by our couragealways have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.
Envy is but the smoke of low estate,Ascending still against the fortunate.
Human knowledge is the parent of doubt. 
The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind. 
Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other. 
True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itselfif I may be allowed the expression
than to itself.
Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others. 
The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant. 
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one. 
Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men. 
True joy is only hope put out of fear. 
Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator. 
Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it. 