We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.

Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.

Well I've had a happy life.

We prefer a person with vivacity and high spirits, though bordering upon insolence, to the timid and pusillanimous; we are fonder of wit joined to malice than of dullness without it.

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.