A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Processions, cavalcades, and all that fund of gay frippery, furnished out by tailors, barbers, and tire-women, mechanically influence the mind into veneration; an emperor in his nightcap would not meet with half the respect of an emperor with a crown.

Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.