People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size.

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

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.