The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.

Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

An orator can hardly get beyond commonplaces: if he does he gets beyond his hearers.

A man is a hypocrite only when he affects to take a delight in what he does not feel, not because he takes a perverse delight in opposite things.

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.