To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude; it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

The king who makes war on his enemies tenderly distresses his subjects most cruelly.

Worth seeing, yes; but not worth going to see.

If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!

A blade of grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or another.

It is good sense applied with diligence to what was at first a mere accident, and which by great application grew to be called, by the generality of mankind, a particular genius.