True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness.

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

Envy is but the smoke of low estate, Ascending still against the fortunate.

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

These pages testify to the discovery of uhnlikely gifts when we stay in community--especially when we stay after things get hard.

Productive writing begins from understanding the idea.

Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.

Being an actor, we're so dependent on the writers.

A cat is like a puzzle with no solution.

Sexual harassment is becoming the modus operandi of the new world (on-line)... It is the means by which some males are conquering and claiming the new territory as their own.

Freedom, security, convenience - choose two

When all your energy gone! When you have nothing left! That's when it's show time!

Joe Biden once again denied stories that he will be replaced on the ticket in 2012. He says he will continue to embarrass President Obama for another four years.

I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.