Dignity And Love Were Never Yet Boon

A Grave Aspect To A Grave Character Is Of Much More Consequence Than The World Is Generally Aware Of; A Barber May Make You Laugh, But A Surgeon Ought Rather To Make You Cry.

No One Hath Seen Beauty In Its Highest Lustre Who Hath Never Seen It In Distress.

The Greatest Part Of Mankind Labor Under One Delirium Or Another; And Don Quixote Differed From The Rest, Not In Madness, But The Species Of It. The Covetous, The Prodigal, The Superstitious, The Libertine, And The Coffee-house Politician, Are All Quixotes In Their Several Ways.

Heroes, Notwithstanding The High Ideas Which, By The Means Of Flatterers, They May Entertain Of Themselves, Or The World May Conceive Of Them, Have Certainly More Of Mortal Than Divine About Them.

There Is Scarcely Any Man, How Much Soever He May Despise The Character Of A Flatterer, But Will Condescend In The Meanest Manner To Flatter Himself.