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.

To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic of true taste and feeling is what no man without genius could be if he would.

Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.

Mystery is not profoundness.

The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.

The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.