No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

Life is too short for a long story

Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.