The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.

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.

It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.