History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.
A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.
A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.
Most men are unwilling to be taught.
If a man has a science to learn he must regularly and resolutely advance.
No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.