Everyone is prejudiced in favor of his own powers of discernment.

The highest of characters is his who is as ready to pardon the moral errors of mankind as if he were every day guilty of them himself; and as cautious of committing a fault as if he never forgave one.

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our eye.

Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.

Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible.

They enhance the value of their favors by the words with which they are accompanied.