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

People do not persist in their vices because they are not weary of them, but because they cannot leave them off. It is the nature of vice to leave us no resource but in itself.

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

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.