A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.

Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.

As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

None are happy but by anticipation of change.