And learn the luxury of doing good.

Prudery is ignorance.

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

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

The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.