There are three wants which never can be satisfied: that of the rich, who wants something more; that of the sick, who wants something different; and that of the traveler, who says anywhere but here.

Society does not love its unmaskers.

The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

The inmost in due time becomes the outmost.

Everything intercepts us from ourselves.

The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.

Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience.