Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

No evil is insupportable but that which is accompanied with consciousness of wrong.

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

There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary alike of pleasures and of cares; that the powerful and the weak, the celebrated and obscure, join in one common wish, and implore from nature's hand the nectar of oblivion.

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.

A transition from an author's book to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city.

The number of such as live without the ardour of inquiry is very small, though many content themselves with cheap amusements, and waste their lives in researches of no importance.