None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

We judge of others for the most part by their good opinion of themselves; yet nothing gives such offense or creates so many enemies, as that extreme self-complacency or superciliousness of manner, which appears to set the opinion of every one else at defiance.

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.

There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which, we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect, the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.

Liberty is the only true riches: of all the rest we are at once the masters and the slaves.

Men of gravity are intellectual stammerers, whose thoughts move slowly.