When the heart is right, the feet are swift.

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].

[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.

What is it men cannot be made to believe!

A walk about Paris will provide lessons in history, beauty, and in the point of Life.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

We generally learn languages for the benefit of reading the books written in them