The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.

Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.

Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.