I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country.

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.

Whoever rises above those who once pleased themselves with equality, will have many malevolent gazers at his eminence.

Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.