Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.

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

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.

Most minds are the slaves of external circumstances, and conform to any hand that undertakes to mould them.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

No man can have much kindness for him by whom he does not believe himself esteemed, and nothing so evidently proves esteem as imitation.

Few faults of style, whether real or imaginary, excite the malignity of a more numerous class of readers, than the use of hard words.