“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”

“There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.”

“Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. ”

“When we treat man as he is we make him worse than he is. When we treat him as if he already was what he potentially could be We make him what he should be.”

“It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.”

“Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.”

“see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which gain have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation”