A traveler of taste will notice that the wise are polite all over the world, but the fool only at home.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.

If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales.

We seldom speak of the virtue which we have, but much oftener of that which we lack.

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.