I have known a German Prince with more titles than subjects, and a Spanish nobleman with more names than shirts.

The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.

We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.

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

Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.

Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.