We can be said only to fulfil our destiny in the place that gave us birth. I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home!

It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.

It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species.

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.