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

I know nothing which life has to offer so satisfying as the profound good understanding, which can subsist, after much exchange ofgood offices, between two virtuous men, each of whom is sure of himself, and sure of his friend. It is a happiness which postpones all other gratifications, and makes politics, and commerce, and churches, cheap.

We are all wise for other people, none for himself.

Women see through Claude Lorraines.

If we live truly, we shall see truly.

The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.