Life is nothing without friendship.

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe but as one city.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.