All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.

To use two languages familiarly and without contaminating one by the other, is very difficult; and to use more than two is hardly to be hoped. The prizes which some have received for their multiplicity of languages may be sufficient to excite industry, but can hardly generate confidence.

It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife.

He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.

When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed

Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.