Pity a thing often avowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

A hug is worth a thousand words.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.

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.

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because the other half despises them.