The Extreme Delight We Experience In Talking

The Surest Proof Of Being Endowed With Noble Qualities Is To Be Free From Envy.

We May Say Of Agreeableness, As Distinct From Beauty, That It Consists In A Symmetry Of Which We Know Not The Rules, And A Secret Conformity Of The Features To Each Other, As Also To The Air And Complexion Of The Person.

We Rarely Ever Perceive Others As Being Sensible, Except For Those Who Agree With Us.

There Is An Excess Both In Happiness And Misery Above Our Power Of Sensation.

The Contempt Of Riches In Philosophers Was Only A Hidden Desire To Avenge Their Merit Upon The Injustice Of Fortune, By Despising The Very Goods Of Which Fortune Had Deprived Them; It Was A Secret To Guard Themselves Against The Degradation Of Poverty, It Was A Back Way By Which To Arrive At That Distinction Which They Could Not Gain By Riches.