A wise traveler never despises his own country.

Popularity disarms envy in well-disposed minds. Those are ever the most ready to do justice to others who feel that the world has done them justice. When success has not this effect in opening the mind, it is a sign that it has been ill deserved.

I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.

Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.

The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.

I do not think that what is called Love at first sight is so great an absurdity as it is sometimes imagined to be. We generally make up our minds beforehand to the sort of person we should like, grave or gay, black, brown, or fair; with golden tresses or raven locks; - and when we meet with a complete example of the qualities we admire, the bargain is soon struck.

To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous.