Difficult do you call it, Sir? I wish it were impossible.
What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.
No estimate is more in danger of erroneous calculations than those by which a man computes the force of his own genius.
The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.
Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.
No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.