There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.

Natural affection is a prejudice; for though we have cause to love our nearest connections better than others, we have no reason to think them better than others.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.