Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular.

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.

Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

Pleasure is like a cordial - a little of it is not injurious, but too much destroys.