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

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

The first proof of a well-ordered mind is to be able to pause and linger within itself.

The approach of liberty makes even an old man brave.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.