A well-born man is fortunate, but so is the man about whom people no longer ask, 'is he well-born?'

A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.

Languages are the keys of science.

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!

The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it?