The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.

You shall yourself be judge. Reason, with most people, means their own opinion.

Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.