The inheritance of a distinguished and noble name is a proud inheritance to him who lives worthily of it.

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.

When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.

Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs 'caelum non animum mutant': they see new meridians, but the same men, and with heads as empty as their pockets.