Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.

Life is long if it is full.

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.