The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind.
Those people who are always improving never become great. Greatness is an eminence, the ascent to which is steep and lofty, and which a man must seize on at once by natural boldness and vigor, and not by patient, wary steps.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.
Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.