Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

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

Hunger is never delicate.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature.

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.

People in distress never think that you feel enough.