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.

That which anyone has been long learning unwillingly, he unlearns with proportional eagerness and haste.

Religion either makes men wise and virtuous, or it makes them set up false pretenses to both.

An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love.

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.