To love their country has been considered as virtue in men, whose love could not be otherwise than blind, because their preference was made without, a comparison; but it has never been my fortune to find, either in ancient or modern writers, any honourable mention of those, who have, with equal blindness, hated their country.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition.

The truly strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

Try and forget our cares and sickness, and contribute, as we can to the happiness of each other.

Nobody can be taught faster than he can learn.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative faculties. He who easily comprehends all that is before him, and soon exhausts any single subject, is always eager for new inquiries; and in proportion as the intellectual eye takes in a wider prospect, it must be gratified with variety, by more rapid flights and bolder excursions.