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

Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang heavy on their hands, were at some pains to see how they got rid of it.

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

To create an unfavorable impression, it is not necessary that certain things should be true, but that they have been said.

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me. I am then never less alone than when alone.

We must be doing something to be happy.