Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

The most culpable of the excesses of Liberty is the harm she does herself.

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

There are minds constructed like the eyes of certain insects, which discern, with admirable distinctness, the most delicate lineaments and finest veins of the leaf which bears them, but are totally unable to take in the ensemble of the plant or shrub. When error has effected an entrance into such minds, it remains there impregnable, because no general view assists them in throwing off the chance impression of the moment.

By becoming unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

People read every thing nowadays, except books.

The only true method of action in this world is to be in it, but not of it.