It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.

Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?

The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.

There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

Don't let any situation intimidate you anymore, don't accept defeat anymore.

It is with eight lengthy legs we use to catch food, balance and knit a beautiful silk bed, but as babies we had lost our bones and skin, and hence our legs we had shed.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.

There's a lot of work that needs to be done, and there's a difference between talking the talk and walking the walk.

Our virtues and view spring from one root.

In a world without the law of God, you have chaos, oppression, tyranny, and everyone doing what is right in their own eyes.

I've certainly had less practice at fatherhood than I have at acting, but in fatherhood, at least my failures are private!

A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.