One must be strict even in little things.

O charitable philosopher, I beg you to help me. My mind is weak but my soul is strong. Kindle that soul, and the sacred fire shall never be extinguished.

I am sensible that my keenness of temper, and a vanity to be distinguished for the day, make me too often splash in life.... I amresolved to restrain myself and attend more to decorum.

Quotation is more universal and more ancient than one would perhaps believe.

I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.