In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

The triumph of hope over experience.

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

Language is the dress of thought.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.