Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.

Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.

It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.

To-day kings, to-marrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing.

Hope is the best possession.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

The look of a gentleman is little else than the reflection of the looks of the world.