Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.

The spectacle of Nature is always new, for she is always renewing the spectators. Life is her most exquisite invention; and death is her expert contrivance to get plenty of life.

The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

The soul of the Christian religion is reverence.