Postpone not your life.

If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.

We estimate the wisdom of nations by seeing what they did with their surplus capital.

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

Hospitality consists in a little fire, a little food, and an immense quiet

I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty; he has but to open his eyes to see things in a true light, and in large relations; whilst they must make painful corrections, and keep a vigilant eye on many sources of error.