Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.

What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter.

The sun rarely shines in history, what with the dust and confusion; and when we meet with any cheering fact which implies the presence of this luminary, we excerpt and modernize it.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.